TITLE: Ballism
NAME: Eero Ahonen
COUNTRY: Finland
EMAIL: aero@zbxt.net
WEBPAGE: http://www.zbxt.net
TOPIC: Out of Place
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: aeroball.jpg
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.