EMAIL: aero@zbxt.net NAME: Eero Ahonen TOPIC: Out of Place COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Ballism COUNTRY: Finland WEBPAGE: http://www.zbxt.net RENDERER USED: Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version 3.6.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ 3.4.3 @ x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) This is an unofficial version compiled by: root (on aerospace) TOOLS USED: GNU nano 1.3.4 as a text editor GIMP for height field, signature and converting to jpg RENDER TIME: Total Scene Processing Times Parse Time: 0 hours 0 minutes 1 seconds (1 seconds) Photon Time: 0 hours 2 minutes 56 seconds (176 seconds) Render Time: 112 hours 30 minutes 50 seconds (405050 seconds) Total Time: 112 hours 33 minutes 47 seconds (405227 seconds) HARDWARE USED: AMD Opteron 144, 512MB DDR (non-dedicated) IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Do I need to explain? :) One of the very basic scenes is either a glassball or a reflective ball on a checkered plane. In here, as you can see, the glassball has rolled off from the plane. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I was playing around with a layered glassball (empty glassball inholding empty glassball inholding... layered, you get the idea), media, focal blur and height field (replacing the plane). I suddenly got an idea 'bout moving the ball off from the height field and posting this basic-but-still-somehow-different image to IRTC. Due to too great amount of photons and all enabled effects it was 'bout a nightmare to render; especially while I was 'bout all the time using my workstation and rendering another images too.