TITLE: "Candlelight"
NAME: Chris Klein
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: tiger@mgl.ca
WEBPAGE: http://www.mgl.ca/~tiger/
TOPIC: Glass
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
JPGFILE: clight.jpg
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0 (dos version)
TOOLS USED: Moray 2.0
RENDER TIME: 67 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 90
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
This image is dedicated to the four of my friends
who all (separately) were engaged in the last 6 months... Rebecca,
Jeremy, Matt, and of course, Theressa. Thanks for the idea, and thanks
for giving me something to grumble about : )


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
I've been raytracing, technically, for 4 or 5 years (on and off- 
mostly off), but this is only the second complete "Scene" I have finished,
and the first I've submitted to the IRTC.

I would have liked to put a few more last minute touches in, but the
workload of 4th year univ made it a struggle to finish it on time.

Objects: The winebottle and wineglasses are rotational sweeps with glass
textures. Moray has very nice sweep tools, they weren't easy to get right
but far easier than scripting would have been. The bottle and glasses have, 
in fact, wine in them.. at some angles it's visible, at others it's not.
The wine label comes from the Wine Label Gallery:
http://www.zipling.net/users/mak/winelabels/Welcome.html

The candle is pretty simple. I wanted to add blobs of melted wax but
could never get a satisfactory effect. The flame.. I love the flame.. was
a stroke of luck, another rot sweep with a gradient Z texture turbulated
somewhat.

The candleholder is a simple box, cut away into hexagonal, angular form
and given a nice IOR.

The ring & box are also relatively simple, a rounded box made of boxes,
cylinders and spheres. If it's one thing I can do, it's CSG. : ) The ring
is a torus, with a diamond again a cutaway box. The cloth is done with a
bezier patch.

The glow around the candle is an emitting halo that I added by hand
after finishing my Moray work. Also, other script editting included
some memory-saving work (Moray made two seperate 1.6MB includes for
each identical wineglass.. as it was it still required 20MB to render!).

Post-processing was limited to a bit of gamma correction and the
title/signature addition in PaintShopPro.

I estimate something in the region of 30 hours went into this project,
over a period of about a month, but that could be as much as 10 hours 
off in either direction, I didn't keep track. I had a lot of fun and
hope to get some useful critiques back.

Finally, the scene files are available only if you ask me really nicely.
I didn't want to upload them because there are about 6MB worth of include
files there! However I will make them available, as well as the Moray
scene file, if asked.

--Chris "Tiger" Klein

