EMAIL: mb@tos.pl.net NAME: Mario Becroft TOPIC: Physics & Math COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT TITLE: 3D Sierpinski Gasket COUNTRY: New Zealand WEBPAGE: http://www.pl.net/user/mario/ RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3 TOOLS USED: Gforge RENDER TIME: approximately 1 hour HARDWARE USED: Intel P5-100, 72MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A 3D extension of the Sierpinki Gasket approximated by 260,000 spheres in a glass globe. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: POV-Ray 3's while loop was used to create the Sierpinki Gasket, which is approximated by 260,000 spheres. I would have liked to be able to use more spheres in order to obtain a smoother result, but memory was insufficient. I also tried blobs, and while the result was excellent, it rendered extremely slowly and thus was impractical on my slow P5-100. The lens flare/sparkle effects were created with Nathan Kopp's lens flare "plugin" for POV-Ray. The hills in the background were created with gforge and added to the POV- Ray scene as a height-field.