Well, here it is, after 2 days, 17 hours, 40 minutes and 34 seconds. It uses
50 samples for the focal blur, besides the photons and the heavy
max_trace_level, and the machine was being used for other things, so I think
that time is justified. This was meant to be a quick test-render for the
final version, but I think it still needs work. It doesn't look much like
the other one. Still needs a lot of tweaking. I think I'll be faking the
focal blur with a post_process, among other things. I was wondering if
anyone can tell me how you would do the pointy triangles of the crown. I
think making it out of a couple thousand (<17k) spheres in a blob {} is a
bad idea, isn't it? :\ Maybe an isosurface can do this just as well, or some
fancy CSG. We'll see. Thanks in advance for all comments and suggestions. :)

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