Also known as "It's amazing what you can do when you're offended"

The images on this page came about as a direct result of me going in a bit of a huff after reading one of the messages posted on the TSML.  I have no doubt that the message wasn't directed at me personally, but it was enough to make me sit up and take notice.

So I decided to let my imagination lead me, and see where it went.  These images are still a work in progress just now, and various versions are offered for critique. 

The interpretation is left open at the moment, I'll add my intent later.

		This is the bare bones of the scene, with shadow maps enabled for the lights and ray-tracing and anti-alias enabled for the render.
		The same scene, but with ray-tracing enabled instead of shadow maps and with ray-tracing and anti-alias enabled for the render.
		This is the scene a little further along, with ray-traced lights, but with ray-tracing disabled and anti-alias enabled for the render.  The only objects which aren't mine, are the books and the chair, which were downloaded from the 3d Source website and converted to .cob format.
		The same as above, except that ray-tracing was enabled for the render.
		This was an experiment in negative light.  The only difference to the two previous images is the local light at the edge of the scene was set to a negative number.