TITLE: Bubles tubes
NAME: Denis Bodor
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: lefinnois@lefinnois.net
WEBPAGE: http://www.lefinnois.net
TOPIC: Minimalism
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: tubes.jpg
ZIPFILE: tubes.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Megapov 1.2 Linux i386

TOOLS USED: 
    Vim, The Gimp

RENDER TIME: 
    2h 19m 42s

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ with 1GB Memory
JPGFILE: tubes.jpg
ZIPFILE: tubes.zip


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Minimalism, simplicity and beauty of glass, bubbles and photons.
Glass is perfect for minimalism. It's clear and pure but light can
make a simple shape look like very complex. This is why we all love
glass, water, crystal...


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Objects are just CSG of cylinder and two scaled spheres. A loop choose
for each object 4000 random location. "inside" function is used to 
test if a small sphere can stand inside of tube (6 positions tested).

Megapov is not needed to render this scene. None of the capabilities
of this special version is used here. It's just my only version of 
POV-Ray.

The only difficulty here is for media inside the object. The gradient
map was exported from Gimp gradient tool in POV-Ray format. Radiosity
just add very littles effects and is not critical at all but photons
are.

Of course, loop code can be optimized and factiorized in one macro. 
I will do that... one day.