EMAIL: lefra@voila.fr
NAME: Raphael Teysseyre
TOPIC: Desert
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: A new planet - The green desert
COUNTRY: France

WEBPAGE: http://asfixy.lsdp.net
RENDERER USED: 
	PovRay for Windows 3.5
TOOLS USED: 
	Paint Shop Pro 5 (Jpeg conversion, gamma correction and rescaling)
RENDER TIME: 
	Approximately 2 hours
	
HARDWARE USED: 
	Athlon Xp 1600+

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
	A desert is a place where nobody lives, another planet than Earth is thus a giant desert.
	Why green? I don't know... I think it's better green.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
	The first thing I made in this image is the ground: it's an height field with two dents patterns (one for the great shapes, the other for the details). I then added a great cylinder around the camera filled with green scattering media, which makes the atmospheric effect around the sun. There's a ground fog which makes the horizon lighter than the rest of the sky. The sand falling down the right hill is made with a second height_field, with the same function as the first height field, but with less precision, and filled with media. This second height field is then scaled and moved until giving a good effect.
	I made a 1024*768 render (avaible in the zip file), and then rescaled the image to 640*480 for the irtc.
