It is very beautiful and interesting. I can't believe it took so long for each frame!

Anyway, I do believe the spent time was worthwhile. But I'm amazed by your patience!

Congratulations,

Fernando.


"Thies Heidecke" <h3i### [at] gmxnet> wrote in message news:3c45b3fd@news.povray.org...
> Hi,

> 

> This is a Fractal made out of spheres. Each sphere is replaced

> by 12 smaller spheres that fit into the parent-sphere. The smaller

> spheres are positioned like the Corners of an Icosahedron and

> are exactly scaled so that they just touch their neighbours and

> their parent-sphere but don't overlap with them. This rule is then

> recursively used upto fourth order.

> In total there are 22621 semitransparent spheres in the scene.

> 

> Computationally this was surprisingly the most expensive scene

> i've done until now. Each of the 144 Frames took about

> 4-5 hours, which sums up to approximately (don't laugh!)

> 27 days...

> If i knew this before i hadn't rendered it at all, now that it's done

> i think it should look better for that renderingtime.

> Anyway, i hope you like it and have comments on this.

> 

> The attached version is rescaled to 512x384.

> You can d/l the highquality-version (1024x768 mpeg 2.6MB) here:

> http://halcyon.bei.t-online.de/ikan_hq.mpg

> 

> Greetings

>     Thies

> 

> 

> 

> 

>

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