EMAIL: tenmoons@aol.com
NAME: Sherry K. Shaw
TOPIC: Minimalism
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Magenta
COUNTRY: USA
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.6.1 for Windows
TOOLS USED: Photoshop
RENDER TIME: 8m 3s
HARDWARE USED: Athlon, 1.1 Ghz, 256 mg

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
     presence, light, movement
     splash of thought, whisper of time
     reborn:  magenta

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:  The "thing" is a julia_fractal object, transparent and hollow, with some refraction and a magenta-ish fade_color.  The phong-plus-specular highlight was adapted from Tek's post in P.B.I., about the time this competition started.  (Many thanks, Tek, for sharing this!)  The background is a big black sphere.  The surface under the "thing" is a black reflective plane with wrinkles.  When I got to the rendering point, I was was horrified to discover that it got done in just a couple of minutes, which didn't seem decent.  So then I added some photons and radiosity and stuff.  This changed maybe five or six pixels in the resultant image, but it got the rendering time over eight minutes.  Then I felt better.  I used an old, cranky, obsolete copy of Photoshop to add the title and copyright and to convert to JPG.  The full source code is in sks_mage.zip.  And that's all I have to say about that.