This may be my first post, but it isn't my first image. I've been using 
PovRay sporadically since I found version 2 on a magazine cover disc 
(I've still got a 100 sheet dot matrix printout of the entire manual!).

Currently unemployed, I decided to have another crack at doing Penrose 
tiles, the hard way. After a week I gave up and did them the easy way :)

I also wanted to create some more Geomag models. Geomag consist of 27mm 
long magnetic rods, and half inch diameter steel ball bearings. I 
originally modelled it 2 or 3 years ago, based on a set I bought as a 
present for my sister. Since then I've bought a load for myself, which 
has a new rod design, and different colours. The shapes here are very 
simple, I have built shapes with up to 540 rods and weighing over 3Kg 
(As soon as I'm earning again I must go buy some more...).

I thought I could call Penrose tiling a chequered plane and combine that 
with the reflective spheres of the Geomag, and present it here as a 
first post.

Rendered on an AMD Athlon XP 1800, 768Mb ram, at 2560x1920 overnight. 
Uses blurred reflections, area lights and radiosity, although the latter 
doesn't really show. JPEG compression has done strange things to the 
magenta piece.

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