Anyone care to guess how this was made?  No, it's not a multilayer texture 
on a cylinder.

90% quality JPEG mauls this image, but the original PNG is a few megabytes 
too large to post.

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An array of objects filled with media?
It looks like the inside view of a crystal matrix with a non-uniform 
electron distribution. The glow being the electrons.
Flux! 

Coridon Henshaw wrote:

> 
> Anyone care to guess how this was made?  No, it's not a multilayer texture
> on a cylinder.
> 
> 90% quality JPEG mauls this image, but the original PNG is a few megabytes
> too large to post.

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Coridon Henshaw wrote:
> Anyone care to guess how this was made?  No, it's not a
> multilayer texture on a cylinder.

A cube with mirror with spheres at each corner, filled with
media?  How long did it take to render?
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"Timothy R. Cook" <tim### [at] scifi-fantasycom> wrote in 
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> Coridon Henshaw wrote:
>> Anyone care to guess how this was made?  No, it's not a
>> multilayer texture on a cylinder.

> A cube with mirror with spheres at each corner, filled with
> media?  How long did it take to render?

No media, no reflection.

The full 1600x1200 version used 68MB of RAM and took 30 mins 37 seconds to 
render on my slower system, a Celeron 400.

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Can you post the full size (>= 1280x1024) version in jpg ? Would be great
for my wall paper :-)
If you prefere, u can post privately...

Thx

ALeX


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> "Timothy R. Cook" <tim### [at] scifi-fantasycom> wrote in
> news:3C709F40.C3663976@scifi-fantasy.com:
>
> > Coridon Henshaw wrote:
> >> Anyone care to guess how this was made?  No, it's not a
> >> multilayer texture on a cylinder.
>
> > A cube with mirror with spheres at each corner, filled with
> > media?  How long did it take to render?
>
> No media, no reflection.
>
> The full 1600x1200 version used 68MB of RAM and took 30 mins 37 seconds
to
> render on my slower system, a Celeron 400.

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Judging from the regular patterns of dots, I'd say some sort of array of
spheres, but I'm too tired to  work out the necessary array geometry


Coridon Henshaw wrote:
> 
> Anyone care to guess how this was made?  No, it's not a multilayer texture
> on a cylinder.
> 
> 90% quality JPEG mauls this image, but the original PNG is a few megabytes
> too large to post.
> 
>  [Image]

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Grey Knight <s16### [at] namtarqubacuk> wrote in
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> Judging from the regular patterns of dots, I'd say some sort of array
> of spheres, but I'm too tired to  work out the necessary array geometry


Correct.  The foreground is 26,000 spheres arranged in a 14 level deep 3d 
grid.  The patterning effect is just an artifact of perspective.

Any guesses on the background?

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"Alexandre Bouchara" <bou### [at] club-internetfr> wrote in 
news:3c70d75c@news.povray.org:

> Can you post the full size (>= 1280x1024) version in jpg ? Would be great
> for my wall paper :-)

The full version is way too big to post here.  I can, however, email you a 
1.5MB 1600x1200 JPEG (quality=100) if you'd like.


On a related note, since nobody has taken up my challenge to figure out 
what pattern I used for the background element, I'm going to spill the 
beans and say that it's the ridged multifractal function clipped to 0..1 
and used as a pigment.

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