TITLE: Fireball
NAME: Marc Abel
COUNTRY: United States of America
EMAIL: m-abel@columbus.rr.com
WEBPAGE: www.mirrim.us
TOPIC: Minimalism
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: fireball.jpg
ZIPFILE: fireball.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    MDI Tele (unpublished; written by Marc Abel)

TOOLS USED: 
    ImageMagick's "convert" (solely for image format converions)

RENDER TIME: 
    107 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    Celeron, 2.0 GHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

<Fireworks from Independence Day 2002, Hilliard, Ohio.  Kaleidoscopic ray
tracing of 14 August 2005.>

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

<This is a "minimalist" ray tracing with four objects and no light sources. 
One
is a photograph of fireworks; the other three are identical mirrors,
dimensions 1.39 inches by 16 inches (you may think "centimeters", if you would
like, or whatever other unit you wish).  The three mirrors are attached to
form a kaleidoscope tube; it points towards the photograph but does not touch
it.  In particular, one end of the tube is two inches (or your unit) from the
photo; this disjointedness is what causes the "explosive" disjointedness of
the rendered image as one moves away from its center.>

