Plasma Flowers
by Alex Kluchikov

This video was produced by rendering the following 482 bytes of code with POV-Ray:

#macro L(a,b)light_source{a b}#end union{L(<20,0,15>red 1)L(<15,13,15>rgb<1,.7>)L(<3,20,15>rgb<.7,1>)L(<-10,17,15>green 1)L(<-19,7,15>rgb<0,1,.7>)L(<-19,-7,15>rgb<0,.7,1>)L(<-10,-17,15>blue 1)L(<3,-20,15>rgb<.7,0,1>)L(<15,-13,15>rgb<1,0,.7>)rotate z*clock*360}camera{location -30*z angle 80}sphere{0,31texture{finish{phong.4phong_size 60reflection.95}normal{radial.5frequency 2sine_wave rotate z*60rotate y*30rotate y*clock*360}}scale z*1.4hollow}global_settings{max_trace_level 20}

Still Images

Frame #4 | Frame #93

About

This Video is part of the POV-Ray Short Code Contest #5 which was originally published by Paul Bourke in 2008. This page shows a new re-rendering of the original POV-Ray source code at a higher resolution, although here and there some miniscule syntactic changes had to be made to the code in order to get POV-Ray 3.7 to parse it.

Author's Comment

Just recursively reflected color lights in reflective hollow sphere. I put rendered movie to youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skbl6LrNxqM

Metadata

Author:	Alex Kluchikov
Author's Website:	aklk.com.ua/
Submission ID:	iyxhrs
Source Filesize:	482 Bytes
Source Page:	SCC5
Source Code:	long \| short

Render Process

Frames:	120
Pixels:	230 400 000
Rays:	16 674 752 278
CPU-Seconds:	56 958

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