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One of my friend's took this shot and put it on on his blog:

I liked it a lot because it reminded me of a picture i generated from the ray tracer i wrote:

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And yet even with all my reflections and translucency hullabaloo, his looks so much cooler than mine!  Oh well, that's why i'm a code monkey and not an artist. :-)

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  • Anonymous
    March 27, 2005
    Fun with cheese graters... <grin>
  • Anonymous
    March 27, 2005
    Chris: Oh dear, i'm kinda worried what kind of fun you have in mind.
  • Anonymous
    March 28, 2005
    That raytracer scene looks awfully familiar. I wrote a raytracer for CS 318 at UIUC: http://www.pettijohn.com/images/school/cs318/spheres.png
  • Anonymous
    March 29, 2005
    Travis: Yup. It's a sphereflake. A pretty common structure used in ray tracers. Interestingly enough it's a fractal structure that has finite volume but infinite surface area :)

    Pretty cool!
  • Anonymous
    April 04, 2005
    > Interestingly enough it's a fractal structure that has finite volume but infinite surface area

    like a Koch curve: infinite length (Lebesgue measure) bounded in a finite area.
  • Anonymous
    April 04, 2005
    Adrian: "like a Koch curve: infinite length (Lebesgue measure) bounded in a finite area. "

    It's exactly like that. In fact, the name of this structure is a "sphereflake" in homage to the "Koch Snowflake"
  • Anonymous
    January 04, 2008
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