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#include "colors.inc"
background { color White }
global_settings { assumed_gamma 1.0}
camera
{
location <0, 0, -25>
right <1,0,0> up <0,1,0>
look_at <0, 0, 0>
angle 5
}
light_source
{
<0, 20, -50>
color White
area_light <5, 0, 0>, <0, 5, 0>, 10, 10 /* very slow, decrease 10 to 2 for experiments */
adaptive 3
}
#declare r_tube = 0.05;
#declare num_steps = 36;
#declare step_size = 1/num_steps;
sphere_sweep
{
cubic_spline num_steps+3,
#declare N = -1;
#while(N <= num_steps + 1)
#declare theta = 2 * pi * N * step_size;
< 0.75*cos(3*theta + 0.1), 0.75*cos(4*theta + 0.7) + 0.05, 0.3*cos(7*theta)-0.04>, r_tube
#declare N = N + 1;
#end
pigment { color rgb <0,0.25,1> }
finish
{
ambient 0.15
diffuse 0.85
brilliance 2
phong 0.25
phong_size 5
}
}
plane
{
<0,0,-1>, -0.4
pigment { color White }
finish
{
ambient 0.35
diffuse 0.65
}
}