TITLE: On the outside NAME: Peter Murray COUNTRY: England EMAIL: peter@table76.demon.co.uk WEBPAGE: http://www.table76.demon.co.uk/POV/ http://www.table76.demon.co.uk/POV/wip.html for work-in-progress pages TOPIC: Worlds within Worlds COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1g.r1 Macintosh PPC TOOLS USED: POV-Ray's built-in editor, and Adobe Photoshop to convert the Pict file to JPG. RENDER TIME: Time For Parse: 0 hours 0 minutes 2.0 seconds (2 seconds) Time For Trace: 2 hours 56 minutes 53.0 seconds (10613 seconds) Total Time: 2 hours 56 minutes 55.0 seconds (10615 seconds) HARDWARE USED: Apple Macintosh G3 300MHz Desktop, now with 256Mb IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Spheres within spheres within... We, of course, are looking at the outside layer. We're not imbedded inside another... wait... what's that beyond the clouds? DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: As usual, I had several ideas for this round, one of which was to take an ornate metal sphere and nest it inside itself. I wasn't sure I liked that idea enough though. However, POV-Ray has been hanging all afternoon as I try to render a different idea, so I'm going with this idea after all. Most of the effort on this went into trying to find textures that worked well for the sphere, so that I could nest differently-textured spheres inside each other. I made the sphere early in the round, but then abandoned it in favour of a more complicated scene, which is the one that has been making POV-Ray hang so often :-( . Fortunately, it was still around when I needed this fall-back image. It does fit the expanded description of the topic, at least. Two of the files in the zip file were included because the main file #includes them - I'm not sure if the image actually needs them, but it's 1:30am and my brain is melting.