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#   ss2
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#   Scene     Spinal Starecase
#   Author    Alan Dorin and me
#   Features  Blobby lines, (true function)
#             Nice "palm-type" blends 
#   Comments  This is the last frame from Alan's animation, the
#             original file fanYP.0099.ray in Rayshade format.
#             I converted it to RATS and made small changes in
#             lights, camera and surfaces. The actual geometry
#             was also changed: the blue tail of the beast was
#             taken from some other frame (#65?), because this
#             one was not very exciting.
#             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
#             See also ss1.rat
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#   Objects   489 primitives
#             1) hard: 333 cylinders + 156 spheres
#             2) soft: 333 lines + 36 dots + 120 spheres
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#   Precision DOUBLE
#   Memory    cheap
#   Time      320x480 sample 16, demiurge:
#             hard: 24 min  18 sec
#             soft: 27 min   0 sec
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#   Beautiful
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