EMAIL: ahockman@freenet.columbus.oh.us NAME: Andrew Hockman TOPIC: Childhood COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Christmas Bulbs COUNTRY: USA RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.0 TOOLS USED: Moray- to make it LViewPro- to convert ot HyperTerminal- to send it RENDER TIME: 21 hours, 49 minutes, 50 seconds. HARDWARE USED: Pentium 120, 24 mb. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Nothing invokes stronger childhood memories than the large, old-fasioned Christmas light bulbs. Because of these strong memories, we have always had these large bulbs on our chirstmas tree. This picture is a tribute to these bulbs, and the era of long ago that they represent. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Although fairly simple in description, I wrestled with this image a long time in order to get everything exactly right. The bulb glass and base are both rotational sweeps, and the little glass part inside is a beizer patch. I used primitives for the other detailing. I put point lights inside a few of the bulbs to give a different, glowing sort of look. At first, I had more than twice as many bulbs in the scene, bumping the number of frame-level objects up past 168,000. After over an hour of parsing, I ran out of memory. After trying several different tricks, I gave up on trying to do the picture as planned. I deleted some of the lights, grouped the remaining ones closer together, and zoomed in. Also, I reduced the complexity on the sweeps, and killed two outside point lights. Not only did it render, but it did it in under a day! Boring stuff: Moray created, POV rendered, LView Pro did conversion and text stuff.