Uploading the entry, and writing this text was done by my brother.
I'm 14 years old, and have been using pov-ray for about 2 years.
I worked on this image mostly in weekends. (instead of doing my homework)
All editing was done in the pov-ray text editor, no modelling tools where used.
the pov-code is about 42 kb (7 files)
Everything was modelled with simple pov-ray shapes. no image textures or tiles where used.
During development a few simple plain red or blue textures where used, to keep rendering fast.
Things like fog, radiosity and small details can be shitched on/of at a single point in the code.
All parts of the robot where put into unions to make it easier to move the joints
of the robot.
render time: 11h 52m 25s for the main image, with radiosity switched on.
all of the code needed to render this image is included with the GNU GPL license.
Render Statistics:
Image Resolution 1580 x 1185
Pixels: 1923287 Samples: 2882055 Smpls/Pxl: 1.50
Rays: 224374985 Saved: 11475018 Max Level: 5/5
Ray->Shape Intersection Tests Succeeded Percentage
Box 12509584497 1786620383 14.28
Cone/Cylinder 10476864264 5329569396 50.87
CSG Intersection 3429345086 2782329509 81.13
CSG Union 3236150482 2753773362 85.09
Isosurface 1962880278 398169499 20.28
Isosurface Container 2931887967 1962880612 66.95
Isosurface Cache 106420260 6925131 6.51
Plane 2928917788 990386304 33.81
Prism 235434307 42492316 18.05
Prism Bound 1301914996 721652408 55.43
Sphere 6270612755 2452147223 39.11
Sphere Sweep 129080089 9868466 7.65
Torus 1216046862 92676372 7.62
Torus Bound 1216046862 106068226 8.72
Bounding Box 93418099940 30406609299 32.55
Light Buffer 1726003351 739886661 42.87
Vista Buffer 73950764 48742087 65.91
Isosurface roots: 1912625433
Function VM calls: 31345167974
Roots tested: 320353699 eliminated: 37641679
Calls to Noise: 31396733526 Calls to DNoise: 173190130
Shadow Ray Tests: 4742065019 Succeeded: 2646051053
Reflected Rays: 32626130
Radiosity samples calculated: 472167 (13.05 %)
Radiosity samples reused: 3147037
Smallest Alloc: 17 bytes
Largest Alloc: 90736 bytes
Peak memory used: 80828009 bytes
Total Scene Processing Times
Parse Time: 0 hours 0 minutes 1 seconds (1 seconds)
Photon Time: 0 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds (0 seconds)
Render Time: 11 hours 52 minutes 24 seconds (42744 seconds)
Total Time: 11 hours 52 minutes 25 seconds (42745 seconds)
CPU time used: kernel 41.86 seconds, user 42484.16 seconds, total 42526.02 seconds
Render averaged 44.03 PPS over 1872300 pixels
