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From: Rohan Bernett
Subject: Image Creation Challenge
Date: 28 Aug 2002 21:25:04
Message: <web.3d6d7784b1829a6918ccf4f70@news.povray.org>
Who wants a challenge in making an image?

Here it is: make a scene containing as many of POV-Ray's features as
possible and post it in a reply to this thread.

Anyone interested?

Rohan _e_ii


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From: Aaron Gillies
Subject: Re: Image Creation Challenge
Date: 28 Aug 2002 22:49:18
Message: <3d6d8bae$1@news.povray.org>
Rohan:

Maybe a better challenge would be along the lines of:

Make an image that consists of only 36 spheres and no
CSG.  Who makes the most visually interesting image?

The problem with using as many features as possible is that
the rendering time would at some point approach infinity, even on a relatively
speedy PC.  Isosurfaces, photons, radiosity, area lights, focal blur, etc.
all in one scene?  Yeek ...

I might participate in another type of challenge.

Aaron

Aaron Gillies
x3rxes[%]yahoo.com


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From: Slime
Subject: Re: Image Creation Challenge
Date: 28 Aug 2002 23:10:04
Message: <3d6d908c$1@news.povray.org>
>  Isosurfaces, photons, radiosity, area lights, focal blur, etc.
> all in one scene?  Yeek ...

global_settings {
photons {
count 1
}
radiosity {
error_bound 1000
count 1
}
}

camera {
<3,4,-5>
look_at 0

aperture .000001
confidence .00001
variance 1000
}

light_source {
<3,3,0>
rgb 1

area_light
y,z,2,2

photons {
refraction on
}
}

isosurface {
function {x}
contained_by {sphere{0,1}}
max_gradient 1
pigment {rgbt 1}
interior {
ior 1.5
}
photons {
target
refraction on
}
}

plane {
y,0
pigment {rgb 1}
}

--------

heh =)

untested code, btw. =)

 - Slime
[ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]


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From: Aaron Gillies
Subject: Re: Image Creation Challenge
Date: 28 Aug 2002 23:55:07
Message: <3d6d9b1b$1@news.povray.org>
Veeeery clever ...

Slime, I think you would have won this contest. :)

Aaron

Aaron Gillies
New York City
x3rxes[&]yahoo.com


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From: Kevin Loney
Subject: Re: Image Creation Challenge
Date: 29 Aug 2002 00:10:25
Message: <3d6d9eb1@news.povray.org>
> The problem with using as many features as possible is that
> the rendering time would at some point approach infinity, even on a
relatively
> speedy PC.  Isosurfaces, photons, radiosity, area lights, focal blur, etc.
> all in one scene?  Yeek ...

I've done that, it took a week to render 7 lines at 800x335, and then my
machine crashed because I was playing a game during the render :-P

--
Kevin
http://www.geocities.com/qsquared_1999/
#macro _(r)#if(r<12)#local i=asc(substr("oqshilacefg",r,1))-97;
disc{<mod(i,7)-3,div(i,7)-1,6>,z,.4pigment{rgb 10}}_(r+1)
#end#end _(1)//KL


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From: Rohan Bernett
Subject: Re: Image Creation Challenge
Date: 29 Aug 2002 01:25:02
Message: <web.3d6dafcb2335057718ccf4f70@news.povray.org>
Kevin Loney wrote:
>> The problem with using as many features as possible is that
>> the rendering time would at some point approach infinity, even on a
>relatively
>> speedy PC.  Isosurfaces, photons, radiosity, area lights, focal blur, etc.
>> all in one scene?  Yeek ...
>
>I've done that, it took a week to render 7 lines at 800x335, and then my
>machine crashed because I was playing a game during the render :-P

Okay, so maybe using all those really slow features isn't such a good idea.

How about I change it to this:

Make a scene using as many of POV-Ray's features as possible, and takes
under 3 hours to render on a P3/500 (which is how long benchmark.pov takes)
at 800*600.

How does that sound?

Rohan _e_ii


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From: Peter Popov
Subject: Re: Image Creation Challenge
Date: 29 Aug 2002 02:00:38
Message: <9tdrmuctnvlbhveannbqk2l5ei50odnate@4ax.com>
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 22:49:19 -0400, "Aaron Gillies" <no### [at] spamcom>
wrote:

>Isosurfaces, photons, radiosity, area lights, focal blur, etc.
>all in one scene?  Yeek ...

My current scene is just like that. Considering the amount of CPU
power I have at my hands now*, it shouldn't be a problem :)

What I see as a problem though is making it visually appealing

*3 2x2.4 P4 7 2GB each as a server + about 10 workstations at 1.4+ GHz
each (and a few slower laptops).


Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
Personal e-mail : pet### [at] vipbg
TAG      e-mail : pet### [at] tagpovrayorg


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From: Le Forgeron
Subject: Re: Image Creation Challenge
Date: 29 Aug 2002 03:29:45
Message: <3D6DCD97.4000800@free.fr>
Rohan Bernett wrote:

> Kevin Loney wrote:
> 
>>>The problem with using as many features as possible is that
>>>the rendering time would at some point approach infinity, even on a
>>>
>>relatively
>>
>>>speedy PC.  Isosurfaces, photons, radiosity, area lights, focal blur, etc.
>>>all in one scene?  Yeek ...
>>>
>>I've done that, it took a week to render 7 lines at 800x335, and then my
>>machine crashed because I was playing a game during the render :-P
>>
> 
> Okay, so maybe using all those really slow features isn't such a good idea.
> 
> How about I change it to this:
> 
> Make a scene using as many of POV-Ray's features as possible, and takes
> under 3 hours to render on a P3/500 (which is how long benchmark.pov takes)
> at 800*600.
> 
> How does that sound?


You should impose a theme, like "bedroom of a child", or you will end up
this a collection of objects with no relation and no reason.

You should as well concatenate the portefolio scenes in a single image...


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From: Aaron Gillies
Subject: Re: Image Creation Challenge
Date: 29 Aug 2002 10:06:25
Message: <3d6e2a61$1@news.povray.org>
"Peter Popov" <pet### [at] vipbg> wrote in message
news:9tdrmuctnvlbhveannbqk2l5ei50odnate@4ax.com...

> *3 2x2.4 P4 7 2GB each as a server + about 10 workstations at 1.4+ GHz
> each (and a few slower laptops).

Nice!  My setup is ... erm ... uh ... well, I'd better not say, or else I'll
look stupid.  Let's just say that a relatively simple isosurfaces rendering
took 5 hours and 20 minutes the other day.  Still, it's quite an improvement
over my old 486.

Aaron

Aaron Gillies
New York City
x3rxes[^]yahoo.com


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From: Julien Gourdon
Subject: Re: Image Creation Challenge
Date: 29 Aug 2002 12:38:55
Message: <3D6E4E50.8040901@cnedra.org>
Aaron Gillies wrote:
> Isosurfaces, photons, radiosity, area lights, focal blur, etc.
> all in one scene?  Yeek ...

My PC is rendering...
I couldn't wait for a week so I made a little low-quality preview on my 
second machine. Here it has no photons, no media, no anti aliasing, no 
area lights, fast radiosity settings and poor focal blur settings. Took 
18 hours (!!) to render on a celeron 500 (running a linux povray 3.5 not 
compiled on the machine - I suppose it would be much faster on a windows)
The final higher quality version should come in a few days (thanks to my 
athlon XP :-)
As usual, Questions, comments ?

-- 
Jul### [at] cnedraorg
http://www.cnedra.org


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