TITLE: Magenta
NAME: Sherry K. Shaw
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: tenmoons@aol.com
TOPIC: Minimalism
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: sks_mage.jpg
ZIPFILE: sks_mage.zip
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.