Stefan Viljoen wrote:

> Ger spake:
> 
>> Stefan Viljoen wrote:
> 
>>> Care to describe just how
>>> you made it using SDL? What kinds of objects?
>>> 
>> 
>> Basically it's all a matter of measuring every chip/connector/resistor
>> and such and model then in SDL with boxes, cylinders, planes and tori.
>> The tracks are nothing but cylinders and spheres and placed in the right
>> position by using a scan of the board.
>  
> Ouch - as I suspected. 
:)

> Time? How long did you work on it? 
> 

Overall? I don't really know, I started it about 3 years ago and worked on
it every now and then. Only the last 4-5 weeks I have spend a lot of time
on it.

As for the render I posted, it took ~48 hours to complete.

> I really consider this the most detailed and complex scene I personally
> have seen done with Pov in a very long time.
> 

-- 
Ger

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