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.