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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] gmx net> 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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Hi Fernando,
> It is very beautiful and interesting.
> Anyway, I do believe the spent time was worthwhile.
Thanks very much.
> I can't believe it took so long for each frame!
On my new computer one frame 'only' takes 75 minutes, but
the mainpart of it was rendered on my old celeron 266 @ 400
with pov 3.1g, but i'm still curious why it took so long
and if it's possible to optimize something so that it speeds up
a bit.
> But I'm amazed by your patience!
me too : )
Thies
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> 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
Thank you for a great screensaver.
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<7,3>a<8,3>a scale a translate<-.35,-a,1>}background{rgb 1} // Artis
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