TITLE: Beads'N'Wires
NAME: Maurice Hendrix
COUNTRY: The Netherlands
EMAIL: celtic_246@yahoo.co.uk
WEBPAGE: -
TOPIC: Toys & Games
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: beadwire.jpg
ZIPFILE: beadwire.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.6.1.icl8.win32

TOOLS USED: 
    -

RENDER TIME: 
    327 seconds (5'27")

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD Athlon 64 3000+

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

I tried to render one of those Beads'n'Wires thingies my daughter has.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


I have been actively rendering since May-June of 2004. 
When the subject of this IRTC was announced, I immediately knew what I would be
rendering. 
I took some pictures of my daughter's toy and started working out how to do
this. Halfway 
down the road I got ill for a while and couldn't work on the project for quite
some time. In 
October I re-started work again. The difficult part was to get everything to fit
on the 
wooden board and for all the wires to connect up just right. The red and green
wires are made by
sticking parts of tori and spirals together. The blue wire is made of using the
sphere_sweep
technique that I discovered near the end of this project.
The image was rendered at 1024x768 pixels with an anti-aliasing threshold of
0.1. 

Total Scene Processing Times
  Parse Time:    0 hours  0 minutes  0 seconds (0 seconds)
  Photon Time:   0 hours  0 minutes  0 seconds (0 seconds)
  Render Time:   0 hours  5 minutes 27 seconds (327 seconds)
  Total Time:    0 hours  5 minutes 27 seconds (327 seconds)
CPU time used: kernel 23.25 seconds, user 289.28 seconds, total 312.53 seconds
Render averaged 2516.33 PPS over 786432 pixels