EMAIL: jcampbel@lynn.ci-n.com
NAME: John Campbell
TOPIC: Spectacular Landscapes
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Lunascape
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: http://www.ci-n.com/~jcampbel/
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.5 (Linux/x86)
TOOLS USED: joe text editor, home-rolled terrain generator, GIMP image editor
RENDER TIME: 51 seconds
HARDWARE USED: Dual-processor AMD Athlon XP 1900+ / 1024M
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

	All of Earth's spectacular landscapes in one go, as seen from our
nearest neighbor.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

	All modeling - not that there was much of it this time around - was
done in my text editor. The imagemaps are actual satellite imagery that I
got from various online sources. The terrain generator I wrote myself.
(http://www.ci-n.com/software/terrain/)

	Terra is a sphere with two images mapped onto it, one for the
underlying terrain, and a second layer, with alpha channel added, for the
cloud cover. 

	Luna is a heightfield generated by my terrain generator, not,
unfortunately, accurate lunar terrain.  

	The scene is lit by a point light source placed where Sol would be.