I knew I was going to be out of town for several days this week and wanted to
make sure my PC's processor time wasn't squandered while I was away. So, I set
up an experimental scene to do a series of progressively more detailed brute
force octree space partitioning renders, using sparse voxels to fill a Julia
fractal with spheres (just because). Here's a "contact sheet" of the resulting
frames.

I also made a full-res video of the various iteration levels and posted it on
Vimeo here: http://vimeo.com/35855241

Cheers,
Rob
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Robert McGregor escreveu:
> I knew I was going to be out of town for several days this week and wanted to
> make sure my PC's processor time wasn't squandered while I was away. So, I set
> up an experimental scene to do a series of progressively more detailed brute
> force octree space partitioning renders, using sparse voxels to fill a Julia
> fractal with spheres (just because). Here's a "contact sheet" of the resulting
> frames.

any word on render time?

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nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Robert McGregor escreveu:
> > I knew I was going to be out of town for several days this week and wanted to
> > make sure my PC's processor time wasn't squandered while I was away. So, I set
> > up an experimental scene to do a series of progressively more detailed brute
> > force octree space partitioning renders, using sparse voxels to fill a Julia
> > fractal with spheres (just because). Here's a "contact sheet" of the resulting
> > frames.
>
> any word on render time?
>
> --
> a game sig: http://tinyurl.com/d3rxz9

Well, actual /render/ time wasn't that bad, it was about 4 hours total for all
frames, and then only because I had radiosity settings cranked WAY up.

But the /parse/ time was murder (brute force and all, which is I why I waited
until I was out of town for several days ;). It was about 10 hours parsing for
the first 9 frames, and 70 hours parsing the final one (ouch!).

But, since I wrote the position & radius of each sphere to include files, the
parsing only had to be done once :)

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>Robert McGregor  on date 30/01/2012 02:04 wrote:
> I knew I was going to be out of town for several days this week and wanted to
> make sure my PC's processor time wasn't squandered while I was away. So, I set
> up an experimental scene to do a series of progressively more detailed brute
> force octree space partitioning renders, using sparse voxels to fill a Julia
> fractal with spheres (just because). Here's a "contact sheet" of the resulting
> frames.
>
> I also made a full-res video of the various iteration levels and posted it on
> Vimeo here: http://vimeo.com/35855241
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
> -------------------------------------------------
> www.McGregorFineArt.com
>
>
It's very elegant.
Paolo

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Oh man, that is really neat!

Any chance you would be willing to post the source for that?

THanks,
Ian

"Robert McGregor" <rob### [at] mcgregorfineartcom> wrote:
> I knew I was going to be out of town for several days this week and wanted to
> make sure my PC's processor time wasn't squandered while I was away. So, I set
> up an experimental scene to do a series of progressively more detailed brute
> force octree space partitioning renders, using sparse voxels to fill a Julia
> fractal with spheres (just because). Here's a "contact sheet" of the resulting
> frames.
>
> I also made a full-res video of the various iteration levels and posted it on
> Vimeo here: http://vimeo.com/35855241
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
> -------------------------------------------------
> www.McGregorFineArt.com

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"[GDS|Entropy]" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Oh man, that is really neat!
>
> Any chance you would be willing to post the source for that?

Grrrr, my hard disk crashed last night, but here's what I have from my last
backup, from my first experiments a couple of weeks ago...

http://news.povray.org/povray.text.scene-files/message/%3Cweb.4f2a0580cf27ae8a94d713cc0%40news.povray.org%3E/#%3Cweb.4f
2a0580cf27ae8a94d713cc0%40news.povray.org%3E

Note to self: "Start backing up your data every night!!!!!"

/grrr
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On 02/02/12 04:54, Robert McGregor wrote:
> "[GDS|Entropy]"<nomail@nomail>  wrote:
>> Oh man, that is really neat!
>>
>> Any chance you would be willing to post the source for that?
>
> Grrrr, my hard disk crashed last night,

   Did you try putting it as slave into another computer? ...in my
experience, most of the times it is a boot sector problem, and the data
can be retrieved easily this way.

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Jaime

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