TITLE: On the outside
NAME: Peter Murray
COUNTRY: England
EMAIL: peter@table76.demon.co.uk
WEBPAGE: http://www.table76.demon.co.uk/POV/
TOPIC: Worlds within Worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: pdmdials.jpg
ZIPFILE: pdmdials.zip
RENDERER USED: 

    POV-Ray 3.1g.r1 Macintosh PPC

TOOLS USED: 

    POV-Ray's built-in editor,
    and Adobe Photoshop to convert the Pict file to JPG.

RENDER TIME: 

    Time For Parse:    0 hours  0 minutes   2.0 seconds (2 seconds)
    Time For Trace:    2 hours 56 minutes  53.0 seconds (10613 seconds)
    Total Time:        2 hours 56 minutes  55.0 seconds (10615 seconds)

HARDWARE USED: 

    Apple Macintosh G3 300MHz Desktop, now with 256Mb

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

    Spheres within spheres within...
We, of course, are looking at the outside layer.  We're not imbedded inside
another... wait... what's that beyond the clouds?

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

As usual, I had several ideas for this round, one of which was to take an
ornate metal sphere and nest it inside itself.  I wasn't sure I liked that
idea enough though.

However, POV-Ray has been hanging all afternoon as I try to render a
different idea, so I'm going with this idea after all.

Most of the effort on this went into trying to find textures that worked
well for the sphere, so that I could nest differently-textured spheres
inside each other.

I made the sphere early in the round, but then abandoned it in favour of
a more complicated scene, which is the one that has been making POV-Ray
hang so often :-( .  Fortunately, it was still around when I needed this
fall-back image.

It does fit the expanded description of the topic, at least.

Two of the files in the zip file were included because the main file
#includes them - I'm not sure if the image actually needs them, but it's
1:30am and my brain is melting.

