Thumbnails seem to be the in-thing these days...

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#local N=<-20,40,100>;#local K=<20,-40,100>;#local R=seed(0);blob{#while((K-N).
x>0)#local X=N;#local N=N+<rand(R),rand(R),1>/3;#local N=(vlength(N-K)<vlength(
X-K)?N:2*X-N);sphere{<N.y,-N.x,N.z>,1,1 scale .02}sphere{N,1,1 scale.02}sphere{
<-N.x-40,N.y,N.z>1,1 scale.01}sphere{<N.x+40,-N.y,N.z>1,1 scale.01 }#end
pigment{rgbt 1}interior{media{emission <2,4,5>*5}}hollow}// Nekar Xenos
"Tony[B]" <ben### [at] catholicorg> wrote in message
news:3b01c549@news.povray.org...
> 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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