Here I present the Ocean that rules the humans on the Solaris station as I imagine it. When I read the
book last I made notes on all descriptions Lem gives on the scenery. Here’s in short what I found: - There are two suns, a red and a blue one. Following that there are a red and a blue day.
- The Ocean is black.
- Sometimes the Ocean is covered by a sticky yellow fog.
- On the planet of Solaris, there exist a few islands embedded in the Ocean. They are the only land of Solaris the astronauts could step on.
- The Ocean creates shapes of various kind.
The software I used to create these images is Bryce 5. It allows a very natural treatment of the elements of our visible environment with regard to lighting effects. A problem that arises out of this is that under red or blue
sunlight there can IMHO not be any yellow fog because it is impossible to mix yellow from red or blue. All three are the basic colours from the primary colour wheel. I chose cinemascope as aspect ratio because is best reflects the wide horizon of a seascape. My view on Solaris is definitely not influenced by the 1972 or 2002 movies. The latter is a visual catastrophe in
my eyes. Somebody called it a psychedelic screen saver but it’s even worse. Let’s start with the red day. The sun rises behind the horizon and the black waves reflect the red sunlight. In a
distance we can see the fog: 
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