TITLE: Futurama
NAME: Lutz Essers
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: lutz.essers@web.de
WEBPAGE: http://www.viadukt.de
TOPIC: Future
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: futurama.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.5


TOOLS USED: 
    Digitized map for jupiter surface (see copyright
information below), paint programm


RENDER TIME: 
    18 h
By the way: The picture was calculated during the night between 
2003/2004 in Europe. In other parts of the earth it was already 
2004, whereas somewhere else it was still 2003. I am comfused,
was it in the past or future or what? What is future? ;-)


HARDWARE USED: 
    700 MHz 384 Mb (plus 330 Mb memory on harddisk)


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Future is nothing special: Like seed are thrown away, humans will 
make jouneys to the unknown, they will modify there surrounding and
they will degrade it.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


All objects were modeled in POV-Ray. 

Crater landscape:
The shape of the crater landscape was defined as a heightfield
by combinations of crater spline functions and crackle pattern 
functions. Separate heightfields were used for the flat area,
the large surrounding crater and the mountains in the background.
The textures and the way of using the trace function for setting 
some kinds of bushes were from one of Gilles Tran's makecloud 
files (http://www.oyonale.com, thanks for "Feel free to use and 
modify").

Small hills:
The small hills in the foreground were made as isoface 
objects (function: f_rounded_box-f_granite).

Sky:
To get a natural shading of the planet a transparent plane 
was put between the planet an the farest mountains.

Greenhouses:
The greenhouses are some mathematical object, which made a lot
of headache... The plant inside are some julia fractals.

Highway:
The "transrapid"-like railway tracks are defined as a flat
sphere_sweep spline. The trains and columns were automatically
positioned by using the same coordinates with a function spline it .

Factory:
It could be a factory or a mine (...where you can find Hydroxy-
apatit, you remember the game 'Gruds in space'?). The tubes were 
made with a pipe making .inc-file once again from Gilles Trans. 
The waste water is a flat julia fractal. The kind of steam 
everywhere is made with interior and density defined spheres.

Rest:
All other objects made with simple constructive solid geometry.

Further modification:
Using paint program to tag the picture with copyright information 
and name.





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Copyright information from "Visible Earth" for the 
used jupiter map:

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