It was in the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless evening, in the autumn
 of the year, the sky overcast threatening rain, and the wretched cold penetrating
 to the very core of my body, that I happened upon the ill fated house of Beauty...

   This is an image of a scene I have been working on 3 day's now for my sisters
 birthday. I got the scene to this stage and saved it as a jpg for reference
 purposes. I made a couple of changes and added a bunch of spheres to make a
 string like water curtain effect around the statue.
    I must have been a little over enthusiastic with the ambient values for the
 spheres and their number. I already had the 72 colored spotlights highlighting
 the ceiling and the light buffers started consuming enormous amounts of memory.
    After rendering for 15 min. my hard drive started groaning and thrashing
 in an unatural way. Concerned I stopped the render using the windows task manager   
because Pov
had stopped responding. When I restarted Pov the file and all of it's
 contents were gone. This will remain an unfinished and unreproducable work -
 a fatal beauty if you will.


-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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