TITLE: Life on the Moon
NAME: Artur Tchoukanov
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: artur83@hotmail.com
TOPIC: Future
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: lifeonmo.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    PovRay

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray for modelling, Photoshop for contrast and brightness control

RENDER TIME: 
    around 3 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Intel 2,6GHz HyperThreaded P4.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

"In the future, by the year 2000, we will have colonies on the moon" said people
in the fifties. 
Well I think they were too over hopefull about their estimation of time for such
a project.
So this is a more humble estimation with an open date.
this is what seems to be one of the first specimens of vegetation in a Lunar
landscape. It is adapted to the moon and probably genetically engineered and
cross-polinated to withstand the temperature fluctuations.This picture gives
the feeling of 'unfinished', 'loneliness', 'rough' and cold with a touch of
warmth: at least to me.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 



Basic
Photoshop heightflield map was created... 
those pixels came out as rocks, just as i wanted. 
My explorations had water(or ice) reflecting the earth, but i found it too busy.


The grass is an imported model with my own material
Credit is due to 3dCafe model, don't remember who made it, since i had it for a
while.

The Earth is a sphere with an imagemap(my first try at it) The image map is
actually 2 maps combined from different free sources on the net... I don't
recall them, 'cause it was just an idea at the time and i didnt bother to
record my sources. 

The stars are just a vertical plane with an imagemap. I got off google search

The fog is created in Moray.

Then the pic is then processed through Photoshop for brightness and levels. 

