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The Persistence of Ignorance

The Persistence of Ignorance is a gallery of computer generated images. I create these images with a Raytracer, a kind of program that uses a 3D technique called (obviously) Raytracing to obtain a picture from a virtual scene, previously defined. There are many raytracing programs out there, most commercial, but I use only POV-Ray, an amazing and free raytracer, and his unofficial sequel MegaPOV.

In addition to the galleries, the site contains some of the source code used to generate these, and also information about the techniques I often use. Finally, there is the almost mandatory links section with a few URLs related to POV-Ray. Please send any comment, suggestion or criticism, about the images or the site, to jaime at ignorancia (dot org).

Thanks for the visit, and enjoy the images!



Jan 10, 2010
New images
New images on the also new Lighting Challenges gallery.
The BedroomFruit Bowl
Jan 10, 2010
New WIPs
New works in progress... although some of them don't seem to progress that much.
AntsFrom TORCS to POV-Ray


Jan 10, 2010
New Gallery
I added a new gallery section to host all my entries to the Lighting Challenges organized by Jeremy Birn.

Oct 13, 2009
Enhancing Eagle3D renders: Tutorial
Following my recent experiments with Eagle3D, by visitors request, I added a little tutorial (with source code) about my method to enhance Eagle3D renders.
Aug 2, 2009
Summer update
Just to test the new CMSMS admin interface, I've uploaded some unpublished images and experiments from this year. Indeed, it works nicely, simple and effective as I like it... but the most important part is that publishing new pages and images is now much easier.
Jul 31, 2009
CMSMS Update

I've updated the site CMS (CMS Made Simple), and as a side effect, all the news disappeared... not really a great loss, and much less problematic than what I was expecting for an update from 0.11.2 to 1.6.

I will restore later a few of the more recent news from the backup.