TITLE: Chemical Capers
NAME: Raymond Ore
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: rore@raymation.co.uk
WEBPAGE: http://www.raymation.co.uk
TOPIC: Glass
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: rayslab.jpg
ZIPFILE: rayslab.zip
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0
TOOLS USED: Pen and paper
RENDER TIME: 73 hours 23 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Pentium-100

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

When I first thought about this competition I had in mind to do a church stain
glass window but whilst
searching for reference I saw a photograph of some bottles with only one in
focus, I then thought of glass containers in a lab with different coloured
liquids, then this picture was born.
I'm not happy with the amount the picture is out of focus, I wanted a lot more
but the render time was getting to long plus in the scene file I've got soft
shadows defined but again render time prohibited, maybe
when I get 400mhz pentium pro with MMX.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Construction? well the bottles are lathe objects but after finishing I
discovered a surface of revolution
might of been better. The petra dishes are a collection of tubes, disks and a
torus CSG'ed to make them solid and the refraction to work properly. Textures
are all slightly modified standard textures. I wanted 
a spiral of glass in there somewhere but my old copy of Spiral and CTDS only
works for the old POV
syntax, is there an updated version ?
Thanks for reading this far.
Ray.

