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SPHERES IMAGES

SPHERES V 640x480 (48kB) 800x600 (100kB)) 1024x768 (151kB) Description: Lots of spheres in all colors reflecting each other. Render info: Rendered in ~3 hours | fsaa 2 pixels   SPHERES VI 640x480 (44kB) 800x600 (101kB) 1024x768 (146kB) Description: Less spheres than in my last creation, but much more colorful. Render info: Rendered in 30 minutes | fsaa 2 pixels | 4.25 bil. rays   SPHERES VII 640x480 (36kB) 1024x768 (109kB) 1280x960 (100kB) 1600x1200 (151kB) Description: A colorful composition with spheres rising out of a big ocean. Render info: Rendered in 1 hour | fsaa 2 pixels | 6.86 bil. rays HiRes Render info: Rendered in 7 hours | fsaa 4 pixels | 4.something qua. rays

SPHERES IX 640x480 (47kB) 800x600 (100kB) 1024x768 (146kB) Description: Wonderful multi-colored spheres Render info: Rendered in half an hour | fsaa 2 pixels | 3.53 bil. rays   SPHERES XII 640x480 (49kB) 800x600 (102kB) 1024x768 (148kB) Description: Three alien planets/moons, reflecting oceans Render info: Rendered in 15 minutes | fsaa 2 pixels | 1.15 bil. rays   SPHERES XV 640x480 (49kB) 800x600 (99kB) 1024x768 (149kB) 1280x960 (248kB) Description: I wasn't in a real happy mood this time, so the spheres ain't as colorful. Render info: Rendered in 30 minutes | fsaa 2 pixels | 2.34 bil. rays

CONSTRUCTION

The actual number of spheres I made in my spheres 5 image is much less than the number you see. This is because I used two mirrors above and below the spheres, thus creating the illusion of much more spheres:

Viewed from another position:

	No Antialiasing: In normal rendering without antialiasing areas with sharp edges or high frequency textures will exhibit "jaggies," or aliasing.
	Normal Antialiasing: Each pixel will have eight neighbors raytraced and taken into account as its color is being determined. So really a 640x480 image is internally computed at 1920x1440... It's the same as linearly raytracing a 1920x1440 image and then with cubic oversampling reducing that down to a clean 640x480. This is quite time-consuming, but gives a good image quality.
	Fine Antialiasing: Uses a randomly jittered, 16x16, global antialiasing algorithm for the finest possible raytraced image. This mode can be four to sixteen times slower than the normal mode, but the result is really pretty.