Through the Menger Sponge
by Mikihiko Nishiara

This video was produced by rendering the following 512 bytes of code with POV-Ray:

#declare r=2*pi*clock;#declare h=r+sin(r)/2;#declare c=<-5*sin(h),1+1.4*cos(h),-4.25-4*cos(h)>;#macro f()fade_distance 1 fade_power 2#end camera{location c look_at 0}light_source{<-2.5,8,-6>rgb<8,9,8>*9 f()}light_source{c rgb<8,8,9>*.1 f()}#macro m(P,S)#if(vlength(P-c)<S*30)#local s=S/3;#local i=0;#while(i<27)#local X=mod(i,3)-1;#local Y=mod(div(i,3),3)-1;#local Z=mod(div(i,9),3)-1;#if((X=0)+(Y=0)+(Z=0)<2)m(P+<X,Y,Z>*s,s)#end#local i=i+1;#end#else box{-.5,.5 pigment{rgb 1}scale S translate P}#end#end m(0,3)

Still Images

Frame #118 | Frame #297

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

I have controlled the level of details according to the distance between the camera and the object. The animation is cyclic.

Metadata

Author:	Mikihiko Nishiara
Author's Website:	unknown
Submission ID:	qcdavh
Source Filesize:	512 Bytes
Source Page:	SCC5
Source Code:	long \| short

Render Process

Frames:	500
Pixels:	960 000 000
Rays:	1 218 754 372
CPU-Seconds:	7 067

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