TITLE: Titan The cold Hell
NAME: Alain BORREL
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: alborrel@club-internet.fr
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: Spectacular Landscapes
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: cold_hel.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    MegaPov 0.7

TOOLS USED: 
    Graphic Converter to convert in jpeg file ofless than 250K
the original png fileRENDER TIME:27 h 40 : 24 s

HARDWARE USED: 
    iMac 233, 64 Mo ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    In Titan you have - 178 _C.The triple point of methan,
that you can encounter in form of gaz, liquid or solid.There are many
Nitrogen in the athmosphereScientists thinks there are hydrocarbons too
in the athmosphere and on the ground wich is invisible because of the
clouds.So the imagination can work...You can see formation of methan
ice, an arch and three "icebergs" of methan ice, a pool of reddish
hydrocarbons freezed, methan snow on the groundAll in an fog of methan
an nitrogen and various gazes.And the rise of Saturn above the moutains


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    The planet A sphere with the
image of Saturn surface mapped on.Thanks
to:http://www.evildrganymede.demon.co.uk/render/render_f.htmfor the
excellents maps of the Dr Ganymede !!And a few (!!) toruses.The
LandscapeThe ground, the mountains, the arch and the icebergs
withvarious isosurfaces functions adding noise_3D function The Arch is a
CSG-difference of three isosurfaces " noised "There is two layers of
fogAnd two planes, one of clouds beetween Titan and Saturnone on the
ground of reddish hydrocarbons freezedI can send the Megapov source code
by mail by simple request.