TITLE: Still Life with Jelly (stillife)
NAME: MaryAnn Mandell
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: MMandl@aol.com
WEBPAGE: under construction
TOPIC: Glass
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: stillife.jpg
ZIPFILE: stillife.zip
RENDERER USED: 
TOOLS USED: Maker
RENDER TIME: 
HARDWARE USED: 
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
   
 "Oh, hi! Come see what I have done. While I was making dinner, I put the Jello
mold, auntie's mint jelly and the aspic out on the counter. They looked so
wonderful with the colors, reflections and shadows that I just had to stop
cooking and do a still life. Isn't it exciting!"
"What's for dinner? Well, I'll have to make ... reservations!" <g>
(Sorry about that dumb joke, but I couldn't resist)


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

     I used Moray to model everything; lots of csg merges and differences. I was
able to multi-task the test renders by using POV for windows for long renders
and POV for Dos for quick ones.
     The aspic, which is traditionally served in small blocks, is made from
three height fields and the top of the mint jelly is also a height field. 
     Getting the textures and the lighting right took a long time. All the
textures were created using Moray's texture editor.  The marble is similar to
one that I have. The mint jelly is a layered texture that simulates the bits of
mint that is found in good mint jelly. The texture of the aspic is due to some
trial and error and the interplay of light on the positions of the height
fields.
    The lighting is colored and positioned to create shadows and the faked
caustics. I modified the lens Flare Plug in to create points of light that
showed up in the real thing but not in the render. 
     I would like to thank Nathan Kopp for his Lens Flare Plug in which can be
found at http://www.grfn.org/~nkopp/pov/flare1.shtml (DO NOT use the one in my
.zip file. It has been modified.)
and Charles Fusner who put his Caustics tutorial on the web before it became
part of the POVRAY Docs
http://www.enter.net/~cfusner/tutorial.html.           

