Space Topics: Postcards from Venus
Honorable Mention
Adult Category
Plot of Land, Trinity Area, Venus
Harald Haack
 Germany
Haack says: "In creating the art I was thinking of the terrible environment
everywhere on the surface of Venus -- the high pressure, very hot gases in
the atmosphere and the corrosivity. It looks like the Hell of ground zero of
an atomic bomb explosion. And I remembered a book I had read by a Russian scientist
which said that Venus would be an alien planet -- strange in our solar system.
Venus is very strange: it rotates backwards.
"To create it, my work began in Adobe Photoshop to create an alpha mask
layer in gray tones. Next I used the terrain modeling software Bryce 3D, loaded
in the alpha mask for the terrain, and modified it. I studied many scientists'
articles about Venus and I remembered that it should be very hot there and
under a highly pressurizing atmosphere, resulting in strong storms. And that
the surface of Venus would be a mixture of metallic rocks, eroded through partial
melting. I created a fat "air" for the weather of Venus in Bryce
3D. I rendered 4 different images with minor variations, then I mixed them
and performed some final modifications in Photoshop."
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