For all the slowest/realistic renderers that Blender supports, including
Kerkythea, Luxrender, Yafaray, Indigo, Maxwell, which one has the least setup
options? In other words, the material parameters are few (whilst still covering
most lighting phenomena - i.e. path tracing realism), and where the final setup
is minimal or nonexistent.

Actually, if anyone could help score out of 10 in each of the 5 attributes below
for each of the above five renderers (10/10 is always better than 0/10), I would
be very grateful. Even guess work would be great:

* Speed (more = better)

* Realism and the amount of light phenomena reproduced (more = better)

* Number of parameters for materials (more = worse, apart from any that are
absolutely essential to obtaining all/most light phenomena and material types)

* Number of parameters for final render (more = worse, apart from no-brainer
options like ticking off/on shadows, direct illumination, or wireframe mode)

* Cost (more = worse)

My bias goes towards the last four, rather than speed. I want something that
reproduces all or most lighting phenomena, but which is extremely easy to
setup. Speed is no issue at all.

Finally, can any of the renderers (and even Blender itself) handle isosurfaces?

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