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#   ss1
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#   Scene     Spinal Starecase
#   Author    Alan Dorin and me
#   Features  Blobby lines, (true function)
#             Nice "palm-type" blends 
#   Comments  This is a frame from Alan's animation. Converted
#             from Rayshade file fanYP.00??.ray. For more info
#             see comments to ss2.rat.
#             First image is rendered in its original version,
#             with hard surfaces. The second one is blobbified
#             with soft surfaces. Soft surfaces polynomialized
#             with Lagrange, 1 sample per line, tolerance .001
#             Use volatile molecules and adaptive sampling.
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#   Objects   478 primitives
#             1) hard: 333 cylinders + 145 spheres
#             2) soft: 333 lines + 38 dots + 107 spheres
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#   Precision DOUBLE
#   Time      resolution 320x480, sample adaptive, demiurge:
#                        hard                soft
#             RATS:      24 min  22 sec      27 min  11 sec
#             Rayshade:  25 min  27 sec
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#   F a s t e r     t h a n    R a y s h a d e !
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