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A nice little scene, about 100,000 frame level objects,
about 5000 light sources, took 29d 15h to render on a 233 Pentium 2.
All the wires are in fact Hermite Splines.
If you can guess what this devices does, tell me.
Comments?
Rendered at "desktop size" 1280x1024. Comments?
The Spline Wire macros are there:
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pigeon/povpage/macros/SplineWire.inc
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Steven Pigeon Ph. D. Student.
University of Montreal.
pig### [at] iro umontrealca Topics: data compression,
pig### [at] jspumontrealca signal processing,
ste### [at] researchattcom non stationnary signals
and wavelets.
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http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pigeon
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Steven Pigeon wrote:
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> If you can guess what this devices does, tell me.
Obviously, this is a power plant for some sort of large robotic war
vehicle that processes Aqua Velva as fuel.
(very cool, BTW)
-Xplo
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> A nice little scene, about 100,000 frame level objects,
> about 5000 light sources, took 29d 15h to render on a 233 Pentium 2.
I salute your patience.
> All the wires are in fact Hermite Splines.
That's nice.
> If you can guess what this devices does, tell me.
It functions as part of the Matrix. This is their broadband network for
transfering agents through the network. It can even load an agent into a
human connected to the Matrix, and is now being used for that very purpose
to help attack the humans in the city of Zion, after the Matrix was
disconnected from computer control by a human who calls himself Neo.
> Rendered at "desktop size" 1280x1024. Comments?
I'm using it as my background right now. :)
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Finally, after all these centuries! The Iludium PEW-36 Explosive Space
Demodulator!
Ken Matassa
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> about 5000 light sources, took 29d 15h to render on a 233 Pentium 2.
Well worth it I think! Very "realistic" and atmospheric, and I love this shade
of the color blue!
I love the lighting setup :)))
Kinda reminds me of Hooverphonic... a machine, mysterious blue reaching back
to the horizon...
Think I'll make it my wallpaper.
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My raytracing gallery: http://davidf.faricy.net/
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Steven Pigeon <pig### [at] iroumontrealca> wrote in message
news:39E675E8.E682A541@iro.umontreal.ca...
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> A nice little scene, about 100,000 frame level objects,
> about 5000 light sources, took 29d 15h to render on a 233 Pentium 2.
wow. You have patience!!
> If you can guess what this devices does, tell me.
hyperspace jump point generator?
> Comments?
>
I like.
Gail
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"Steven Pigeon" <pig### [at] iroumontrealca> wrote in message
news:39E675E8.E682A541@iro.umontreal.ca...
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| A nice little scene, about 100,000 frame level objects,
| about 5000 light sources, took 29d 15h to render on a 233 Pentium 2.
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| If you can guess what this devices does, tell me.
The spinal cord of a robot. I don't know. Just seems to be like a
electrolytic fluid or something being distributed from this centralized
place.
That may be the longest render I've seen stated, think the next to the
longest was 27 days maybe. As far as being a continuous render though I
don't know; and you didn't say if yours was.
Were that many lights and objects really needed? I can't count the ones in
there but it does look like a few thousand or so ;-)
P.S.
You should try and post here more often so I can spell your name right
(relating to another short thread around here someplace).
Bob
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Steven Pigeon wrote:
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> A nice little scene, about 100,000 frame level objects,
> about 5000 light sources, took 29d 15h to render on a 233 Pentium 2.
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> All the wires are in fact Hermite Splines.
>
I looks good, but 29 days is quite a lot for such a scene.
I wonder how it would look like without the light sources just using radiosity.
Of course it would be much different but maybe not bad after all and probably at
least a bit faster.
> If you can guess what this devices does, tell me.
>
particle accelerator ?
Christoph
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Steven Pigeon wrote:
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> A nice little scene, about 100,000 frame level objects,
> about 5000 light sources, took 29d 15h to render on a 233 Pentium 2.
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> All the wires are in fact Hermite Splines.
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> If you can guess what this devices does, tell me.
>
> Comments?
>
> Rendered at "desktop size" 1280x1024. Comments?
>
HEY!! You stole my idea! I've been trying to render a scene called "The
Machine" for 3 month (It should take about the same time as yours to
render, but between tripping over the power wire, having someone reboot
the machine behind my back and POV's inability to restart a png
render...).
Yours is nicer than I expect mine will be though.
Jérôme
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* Doctor Jekyll had something * mailto:ber### [at] inamecom
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"Ken Matassa" <kma### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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> Finally, after all these centuries! The Iludium PEW-36 Explosive Space
> Demodulator!
LOL! My favorite weapon of all time.
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From: Zeger Knaepen
Subject: Re: The Machine / Hermite Spline Wires
Date: 13 Oct 2000 07:32:06
Message: <39e6f2b6@news.povray.org>
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Wow...
A matter-antimatter time-distortion drive...?
ZK
http://www.povplace.be.tf
Steven Pigeon <pig### [at] iroumontrealca> schreef in berichtnieuws
39E675E8.E682A541@iro.umontreal.ca...
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> A nice little scene, about 100,000 frame level objects,
> about 5000 light sources, took 29d 15h to render on a 233 Pentium 2.
>
> All the wires are in fact Hermite Splines.
>
> If you can guess what this devices does, tell me.
>
> Comments?
>
> Rendered at "desktop size" 1280x1024. Comments?
>
>
> The Spline Wire macros are there:
>
> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pigeon/povpage/macros/SplineWire.inc
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> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Steven Pigeon Ph. D. Student.
> University of Montreal.
> pig### [at] iroumontrealca Topics: data compression,
> pig### [at] jspumontrealca signal processing,
> ste### [at] researchattcom non stationnary signals
> and wavelets.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pigeon
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Steven Pigeon wrote:
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> A nice little scene, about 100,000 frame level objects,
> about 5000 light sources, took 29d 15h to render on a 233 Pentium 2.
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> All the wires are in fact Hermite Splines.
>
> If you can guess what this devices does, tell me.
That's easy. It's a heater for those cold Quebec winters. (I should
know, I have one in my basement.)
>
> Rendered at "desktop size" 1280x1024. Comments?
Will fit very nicely on my PC at work.
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flabreq | piano is not only 'music', it's probably the last
@ | moment of 'artistic purity' they'll ever enjoy
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| expression. - Chris R.
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That's some render time. And a great looking image,
I think that this is what the blade of a combine
harvister may look like from the inside.
Great looking image, what is it?
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:ste### [at] zeroppsuklinuxnet
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.zeropps.uklinux.net/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
12:07pm up 2 days, 13:34, 2 users, load average: 1.15, 1.06, 1.02
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It makes toothpicks..?
Nice image!
Source would be good. :)
ian
Steven Pigeon wrote in message <39E675E8.E682A541@iro.umontreal.ca>...
>If you can guess what this devices does, tell me.
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The super-cooled core of a graphics processor capable of rendering POV scenes
like this at 60 frames per second. :)
Jay
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> If you can guess what this devices does, tell me.
It's a Flux Capacitor, for something larger than a Delorian.
:)
C.J. - POV User
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> Steven Pigeon Ph. D. Student.
> University of Montreal.
> pig### [at] iroumontrealca Topics: data compression,
> pig### [at] jspumontrealca signal processing,
> ste### [at] researchattcom non stationnary signals
> and wavelets.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pigeon
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In article <39E675E8.E682A541@iro.umontreal.ca>, Steven Pigeon
<pig### [at] iroumontrealca> wrote:
> If you can guess what this devices does, tell me.
It looks surprisingly similar to my idea of a large-scale, high thrust
ion/plasma drive engine which would be used for travel between stars. It
would also double as a fusion reactor...
Or maybe the cooling maser for a SunDiver ship...
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Personal: chr### [at] maccom, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg, http://tag.povray.org/
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Chris Huff wrote:
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> Or maybe the cooling maser for a SunDiver ship...
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Ah! Another David Brin reader! I really wish he'd write another story
based in the world of 'The Practice Effect'. That's one of my all time
favourites.
Wouldn't it be nice to practice your computer up to something a little
better, like a Cray. The more you use it, the better it gets :-)
Oh well, back to the mundane world ...
Bye for now,
Mike Andrews.
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Chris Huff wrote:
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> Or maybe the cooling maser for a SunDiver ship...
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If "SunDiver ship" is a beer I would agree ;-)
Karl
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> Comments?
I like it a lot.. I really like the texture on the glowing tube things.
> If you can guess what this devices does, tell me.
My guess:
I think it was an early design or Denver International Airport (before they
decided on Kevlar tent things). This design was rejected because people
could STILL find there way around.
A friend of mine thinks it's the spaceship from the T.V. Series, "V".
-autowitch
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In article <39E724D2.B705DF57@t-online.de>, Karl Pelzer
<Kar### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:
> If "SunDiver ship" is a beer I would agree ;-)
Actually, it is a big, mirrored spherical spaceship with a 2 sided deck
dividing it in half, built to poke around the sun. It used a big maser
to remove excess heat.
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Personal: chr### [at] maccom, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg, http://tag.povray.org/
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> If you can guess what this devices does, tell me.
It's a testing rig for star trek warp engines(matter/antimatter
reaction chamber).
> Rendered at "desktop size" 1280x1024. Comments?
I'll have to resize it to 1024x768 for my desktop. :)
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Phil
...coffee?...yes please! extra sugar,extra cream...Thank you.
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Hello,
Nice Picture!
> If you can guess what this devices does, tell me.
The Tube in the middle with that wires looks like a particle accelerator.
The rings around it wohld then be magnets that direct the particle
stream.
But its no ordinary particle accelerator, because it's no circuit, it's
straight and it ends somewhere in the blackness (space?)
That blue-glowing thingies are cooling-tubes I guess.
I don't really know what those quadratic plates at the outside are
supposed to do... look like some kind of mirrors, perhaps to reflect
harmful radiation back to the inside?
After all I think it must some kind of orbital weapon.
Lutz-Peter
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Phil Clute wrote:
> > Rendered at "desktop size" 1280x1024. Comments?
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> I'll have to resize it to 1024x768 for my desktop. :)
I had to resize it to 1152x864. Nobody uses that so I resize everything.
No prob.
Thing is, 1280x1024 is not 3:4, that's why I think it is the evil
resolution... fortunately PhotoDeluxe let's me use aa when resizing even
if i don't constrain proportions. PP7 doesn't let me aa unless i
maintain aspect ratio. </rant>
It works great for wpaper!
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Christoph Hormann wrote:
> Steven Pigeon wrote:
> >
> > A nice little scene, about 100,000 frame level objects,
> > about 5000 light sources, took 29d 15h to render on a 233 Pentium 2.
> >
> > All the wires are in fact Hermite Splines.
> >
>
> I looks good, but 29 days is quite a lot for such a scene.
>
> I wonder how it would look like without the light sources just using radiosity.
> Of course it would be much different but maybe not bad after all and probably at
> least a bit faster.
It uses both radiosity (trace level=2, Q11) and an awful lot of lightsources. I had
to disable lightbuffers, because otherwise it asks for about 800 Megs of light
buffer
memory. eh.
Best,
S.
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Steven Pigeon Ph. D. Student.
University of Montreal.
pig### [at] iroumontrealca Topics: data compression,
pig### [at] jspumontrealca signal processing,
ste### [at] researchattcom non stationnary signals
and wavelets.
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http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pigeon
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"Bob H." wrote:
> That may be the longest render I've seen stated, think the next to the
> longest was 27 days maybe. As far as being a continuous render though I
> don't know; and you didn't say if yours was.
Yes, continuous. I have UPSes on all my computers. It makes them live longer,
not eating the polluted electricity from HydroQuebec. And you can have something
run for months. Actually, I run NT (not 98 or WinMe).
Best,
S.
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Steven Pigeon Ph. D. Student.
University of Montreal.
pig### [at] iroumontrealca Topics: data compression,
pig### [at] jspumontrealca signal processing,
ste### [at] researchattcom non stationnary signals
and wavelets.
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http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pigeon
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David Fontaine wrote:
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> Phil Clute wrote:
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> > > Rendered at "desktop size" 1280x1024. Comments?
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> > I'll have to resize it to 1024x768 for my desktop. :)
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> I had to resize it to 1152x864. Nobody uses that so I resize everything.
Well, I do use that resolution too :) And if I manage to finish that
damned render, it will be at 1154x864...
Jérôme
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* Abandon the search for truth, * mailto:ber### [at] inamecom
* Settle for a good fantasy. * http://www.enst.fr/~jberger
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Wicked cool! It's now my desktop at work.
Pete
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