TITLE: Result of extreme speeding while standing still
NAME: Eero Ahonen
COUNTRY: Finland
EMAIL: aero@zbxt.net
WEBPAGE: http://www.zbxt.net
TOPIC: Speed
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: xtrmcpu.jpg
ZIPFILE: xtrmcpu.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version 3.6.1
(x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ 3.4.4 @ x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

TOOLS USED: 


        nano - SDL editing
        The Gimp - CPU image_map creation and final image JPEG conversion


RENDER TIME: 


  Parse Time:    0 hours  0 minutes  1 seconds (1 seconds)
  Photon Time:   0 hours  0 minutes  0 seconds (0 seconds)
  Render Time:   0 hours 13 minutes  9 seconds (789 seconds)
  Total Time:    0 hours 13 minutes 10 seconds (790 seconds)


HARDWARE USED: 


        AMD Opteron 144
        1GB RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


The topic of this round is "speed". The explanation of the topic says "Any scene
depicting rapid movement from one place to another.". 
But is that the synonym of speed? No, it's not. Speed doesn't mean how fast
you're moving, speed means the amount of happenings in a certain time.
Because of this, I've liberated myself to show one other kind of speed - or to
be more precise, the results of one kind of speeding. Every
raytraces knows what it is to wait for hours, days, weeks, even months for one
picture to get traced, so the calculating speed surely means a lot
for us. In my image, someone has bought a extreme CPU - which is ment for
extreme overclocking (increasing speed, that is) for calculation. But even
then, he has crossed the borders and gone too far, overclocked hes extreme CPU
way too much, so the CPU has given up and burnt and it's showing on a
targetted, sharp spotlight in otherways dark room. At this point, there is no
more speed, no more calculation; only the shame of failure is left.
The raytracer has already clened any thermal greases away and the chip is still
smoking. There's only one thing in hes mind - he'll miss the ongoing 
IRTC round...


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The top of the CPU is a image map; this image was simply drawn with The Gimp.
Besides that, everything's plain objects (circuit board, CPU box, CPU 
feet) or done with CSG (circuit board routes, resistors, transistors,
condensators) and one spot light targeted to the main area. The scene is pretty

simple and the source is included.