Teapot Rendering Competition

Through a combination of new triangular mesh objects, textures, depth of field, soft shadows, glossy surfaces, and photon mapping, this is my custom scene for the competition.

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One Fateful Night

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Details

render time
3h 16m 51.780s

Scene was rendered as follows:

• Apple MacBook Pro Retina (13-inch, early 2013)
  • Processor: 3 GHz Intel Core i7
  • Memory: 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
  • Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 (786 MB)
  • Software: OS X 10.8.4
  • Threading: 8 threads
  • Bounce Count: 5 bounces
  • Minimum Samples: 64 samples
  • Maximum Samples: 256 samples
  • Color Variance: 0.001
  • Minimum Shadow Samples: 32 samples
  • Maximum Shadow Samples: 128 samples
  • Photon Map: 10,000,000 photons
  • Photon Map Bounce Count: 5 bounces
  • Photon Map Irradiance: 5.0 radius
  • Photon Map Irradiance: 100 photons

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