TITLE: Christmas Bulbs
NAME: Andrew Hockman
COUNTRY: USA

EMAIL: ahockman@freenet.columbus.oh.us
TOPIC: Childhood
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: bulbs.jpg
RENDERER USED: 

    POV-Ray 3.0


TOOLS USED: 

    Moray- to make it
    LViewPro- to convert ot
    HyperTerminal- to send it


RENDER TIME: 

    21 hours, 49 minutes, 50 seconds.


HARDWARE USED: 

    Pentium 120, 24 mb.


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Nothing invokes stronger childhood memories than the large, old-fasioned
Christmas light bulbs.  Because of these strong memories, we have always
had these large bulbs on our chirstmas tree.  This picture is a tribute
to these bulbs, and the era of long ago that they represent.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Although fairly simple in description, I wrestled with this image a long
time in order to get everything exactly right.  The bulb glass and base are
both rotational sweeps, and the little glass part inside is a beizer patch.
I used primitives for the other detailing.  I put point lights inside a
few of the bulbs to give a different, glowing sort of look.  At first, I
had more than twice as many bulbs in the scene, bumping the number of
frame-level objects up past 168,000.  After over an hour of parsing, I ran
out of memory.  After trying several different tricks, I gave up on trying
to do the picture as planned.  I deleted some of the lights, grouped the
remaining ones closer together, and zoomed in.  Also, I reduced the
complexity on the sweeps, and killed two outside point lights.  Not only
did it render, but it did it in under a day!
        Boring stuff:  Moray created, POV rendered, LView Pro did
         conversion and text stuff.