Hi there,
  this was rendered by a home-made engine that uses OpenGL.  Different 
impacts were shot, and the surface soon becomes turbulent.  Waves of 
fire, free flowing.

  The project is still in early development, but this data should 
eventually be 'mapped' onto a spherical object, making a planet or an 
asteroid.  Eventually, the ball of fire should cool down and yield an 
eroded rocky surface on which vegetation will be added.

  The current program makes an excellent screensaver but I intend to 
make a simulation program with the whole planet as the simulation map.  
It should be very nice, specially when I add the vegetation and 
constructions.  Only glitch is there's no objectives yet.

  Unfortunately, the render was done at 30FPS on my old computer and to 
achieve such a lightning speed I had to decrease very much the number of 
polygons in the screen.

  The data and algorythms can be easily ported to povray, probably as 
macros.

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