Hey All,
    It's been a while since I last posted an image, and with the dearth of
posts here lately, I figured it was as good of a time as any.  Seeing Hugo's
and JC's Menger sponges constructed with spheres made me realize how simple
it is to make one.  So I made one last night.  I wanted to do something
different, so I switched from non-reflective spheres to reflective cubes.  I
put the camera at the edge of one of the large openings and used a 180
degree camera.  By doing so, I unexpectedly also ended up fulfilling my
desire to create a (seemingly) infinite reflection image.  I put the
max_trace_level to 15, and threw in radiosity for good measure.  I rendered
at 1400x1400 AA 0.3 in about 5.5 hours.  You can resize the image I've
included to your desktop size if you want to use it as a wallpaper.  Enjoy.

-Ben Scheele

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Hi Ben, very nice pic !!  Remind of Vasarelli painting, I love it !!
And I would love to see the code to know how to do that.  I did few myself
(in painting) long time ago and they are still on the wall of my small
office room.

Cheers

Tommy
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Thanks Tommy.  That's a nice compliment to compare my works to Vasarely's.
I do try to go for a kinetic feel in my works, and I love optical illusions
and perceptual effects.  I feel like the computer did most of the work for
me on this one though. :)  Sorry I missed your post, go check the p.b.s.f.
group for the code.

-Ben

P.S.  might this be the one that it reminds you of?





"tommy" <tom### [at] webkenyacom> wrote in message
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> Hi Ben, very nice pic !!  Remind of Vasarelli painting, I love it !!
> And I would love to see the code to know how to do that.  I did few myself
> (in painting) long time ago and they are still on the wall of my small
> office room.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tommy
> The 1st African citizen POV member !
> ==================
> http://www.webkenya.com/
> Promote Web Development in Africa
> WWW = Western or World Wide Web ??
>
>

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