TITLE: White As Snow
NAME: Cosimo Cecere
COUNTRY: Italy
EMAIL: coscec@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: -
TOPIC: Winter
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: wasegala.jpg
ZIPFILE: wasegala.zip
RENDERER USED:
povray 3.1g
TOOLS USED:
Rhinoceros, Spline Tree Include File v1.3 (c) 2000 Andrew Clinton,
Gimp
RENDER TIME:
2 hours 11 minutes 22.0 seconds (7882 seconds)
HARDWARE USED:
Pentium IV - 1.5 Mhz - 256Mb Ram - 40 GBytes HD
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
Simple Cold Winter Image - Just like I feel it.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
First, I imagine the frame: cold, snow, white ... that was the picture
!!!
I already knew hardest difficult was transmit my feeling.
The elements that make up the scene are very simple:
- a tree, created with Spline Tree Include File by Andrew Clinton
(thanks)
- a building with snow on roof, created with Rhinoceros 2.0 (demo)
- snowflakes, just a little algorithm to spread at random spheres in a
volume
- two patchs for ground.
That' all.
To obtain cold light I used an area light and little blue dominant in
ambient_light parameter of global_settings.
I converted png image to jpg image with Gimp
Here significant message output of povray:
Parsing Options
Input file: main.pov (compatible to version 3.1)
Remove bounds........On Split unions........Off
Library paths: C:\Programmi\POV-Ray for Windows v3.1\INCLUDE
Output Options
Image resolution 900 by 675 (rows 1 to 675, columns 1 to 900).
Output file: wasegala.png, 24 bpp PNG
Graphic display......On (type: 0, palette: 3, gamma: 2.2)
Mosaic preview......Off
CPU usage histogram.Off
Continued trace.....Off Allow interruption..Off Pause when done.....Off
Verbose messages.....On
Tracing Options
Quality: 9
Bounding boxes.......On Bounding threshold: 3
Light Buffer.........On Vista Buffer.........On Draw Vista Buffer...Off
Antialiasing.........On (Method 2, Threshold 0.120, Depth 2, Jitter 1.00)
Radiosity...........Off
Animation Options
Initial Frame.. 1 Final Frame.... 1
Initial Clock.. 0.000 Final Clock.... 1.000
Cyclic Animation....Off Field render........Off Odd lines/frames....Off
Redirecting Options
All Streams to console..........On
Debug Stream to console.........On
Fatal Stream to console.........On
Render Stream to console........On
Statistics Stream to console....On
Warning Stream to console.......On
Scene contains 37401 frame level objects; 0 infinite.
00:01:28 so far, Rendering frame 1, going to 1.
main.pov Statistics, Resolution 900 x 675
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Pixels: 607500 Samples: 1309169 Smpls/Pxl: 2.16
Rays: 1921939 Saved: 6802 Max Level: 4/10
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Ray->Shape Intersection Tests Succeeded Percentage
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Bezier Patch 89453084 1286496 1.44
Blob 38222291 1093142 2.86
Blob Component 45395244 10023816 22.08
Blob Bound 277438448 88385511 31.86
Cone/Cylinder 1237859488 493773 0.04
Mesh 4847354 559849 11.55
Sphere 29273033 18938370 64.70
Clipping Object 1039547 984883 94.74
Bounding Box 14322822340 4651104919 32.47
Vista Buffer 259245244 164934250 63.62
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Roots tested: 2284406 eliminated: 274190
Calls to Noise: 361632 Calls to DNoise: 387878
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Shadow Ray Tests: 141488120 Succeeded: 1331384
Transmitted Rays: 612770
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Smallest Alloc: 26 bytes Largest: 851992
Peak memory used: 42393508 bytes
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Time For Parse/Frame: 0 hours 1 minutes 28.0 seconds (88 seconds)
Time For Parse Total: 0 hours 1 minutes 28.0 seconds (88 seconds)
Time For Trace/Frame: 2 hours 9 minutes 54.0 seconds (7794 seconds)
Time For Trace Total: 2 hours 9 minutes 54.0 seconds (7794 seconds)
Total Time: 2 hours 11 minutes 22.0 seconds (7882 seconds)