After many years mankind praised itself for it's own genious as it finally found Planet-X The planet wich was cloaked by the heliosphere. A big spaceship was build to explore the planet and went on it's way. But when they reached the planet their computer systems where overloaded by the completely fractalised and mathematized data from the surface scans. No-one had thought of the possibility that the structure of the planet was infinitely complex and fractal-based. But ofcoarse the computers of the 31st century didn't run on Windows anymore, so the system didn't stall. The results where that the computers started using more and more power to try to keep the data organised and the reactor got overloaded. The unfortunate ship blew up before it could land. But the probe send this image of the surface back to earth. Finally the looks of Planet-X were a bit less unknown, but at the cost of an expensive spaceship and many androids. Will we ever see the mysterious planet again? And will we ever land there? This is my entry for the monthly challenge. It's my most complex scene yet. 683 million polygons! I made parametric formulas and rendered them to height-maps with a program wich was made by a friend of me. (Thanx H2CO3!) I then put the heightmaps on symetrical lattices and multi-replicated them to make the Vulcans, the Lava-crystals etc. The spaceship was mad in bryce too with 100.000 particles in the particle ring. (rendered in several layers and than combined in PSP) The space-background was made with volumetrics and infinite planes with procedurals. I then combined them in several layers and messed around with the layer options untill I thought it looked right.

Bigger version at my gallery.

It doesn't mean my image is a disaster 8)

wow, this is very colorful and also the most original of the entries.

Love it! The colors and especially the sky!