Name: 	   Jan Walzer

Email:	   jan.w@lzer.net

WWW:  	   http://wa.lzer.net

Statement: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD 10BEST.RAYTRACE.COM COPYRIGHT STATEMENT.

Code:	

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#macro J(N,A)

	#local a=mod(N,3);

	#local W=<int(mod(A,4)*2),-int(A/4),9>*2;

	#if(!mod(a,2))

		sphere{ W, 2, 2

			pigment {

				color rgb <a,A/10,W.x/A>*5

				}

			}

		#if(a<1)

			sphere { x+W+x, 2, 2

				pigment {

					color rgb<a,A/10,1>*10

					}

				}

			#end

		#end

	#if(N>3)

		J(int(N/3),A+1)

		#end

	#end 



blob {

	J(32640224,0)

	threshold 1

	translate <-6,3>

	}



//C42

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Comments: 

To save space, we don't define neither a camera nor a 

lightsource. This leaves us with the standard camera, located

at <0,0,0> with direction=z

As we have no lightsource, we specify pigments with a high value,

so when they get multiplied with standard ambient=0.1 they are 

clearly visible.



The Number 42 is stored in a array of 4x4 fields ...

+--+--+--+--+

|O.|..|OO|O.|

+--+--+--+--+

|O.|O.|..|O.|

+--+--+--+--+

|OO|O.|OO|..|

+--+--+--+--+

|..|O.|OO|O.|

+--+--+--+--+



Each Field can have three states:

Every State is assigned to digit:



OO -> 0

.. -> 1

O. -> 2



This can now be encoded as a number in the 3-adic system:

As there are 16 fields, we use the factors 3^0 upto 3^15



The number gets encoded as:



   2 *(3^0)+  1 *(3^1)+  0 *(3^2)+  2 *(3^3)+

   2 *(3^4)+  2 *(3^5)+  1 *(3^6)+  2 *(3^7)+

   0 *(3^8)+  2 *(3^9)+  0 *(3^10)+ 1 *(3^11)+

   1 *(3^12)+ 2 *(3^13)+ 0 *(3^14)+ 2 *(3^15)



   =32640224



The script does this transformation in revers, and places blob-components

at the current positions. Coloring was somehow only to be colorful, with 

as less space, as possible, so I used a,A and multiplied a bit ...



My initials can also be written in such a matrix, so no wonder, it fits exactly as a 

signature ...