Hi everyone,

It's a rendering of iron sulfide, also known as Fool's Gold around these 
parts...

The pyrite was modeled in LightWave. I used angle values from 
KrystalShaper, so what you see here is a fairly accurate representation 
(within two decimal places, anyway).

The whole thing was rendered in five passes on 3-4 cores, taking about 
13 minutes altogether. It would have been much longer if I hadn't used 
compositing techniques. Once again, I used Rune's illusion.inc to 
composite the images. It was a learning experience putting it all 
together... quite a puzzle in fact.

The hardest part, however, was trying to convert the original file from 
LightWave format to something POV could read, while still preserving the 
UV maps. In the end, I had to load the lw file into Blender, join the 
meshes, export as lw format again, load into PoseRay and save as an .inc 
file.

The final image was cropped and bordered in Gimp.

There are some aliasing artifacts present on some of the striations. I 
don't know what causes them, but it's worth looking into.

Questions and comments are always appreciated~

Sam

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