TITLE: Milk?
NAME: Ioannis 'DayDreamin' Nobelis
COUNTRY: Greece (Hellas)
EMAIL: nobelis@vax2.winona.msus.edu
WEBPAGE: http://corfu.forthnet.gr/nobelis/index.html
TOPIC: Glass
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: milk.jpg
RENDERER USED: Imagine 3.0 PC
TOOLS USED: Just Imagine 3.0 Amiga
RENDER TIME: A few minutes! Who cares...
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A couple of glasses with straws and a brown background

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
 I didn't care much! I wanted to see how a PC aould render glass and
compare it to my Amiga. It was made sometime in 1995.

 I took a sphere and put another sphere inside it. Changed the inside sphere's
attributes to TRANSPARENCY (I need to look at my notes for that one!) and the
outside sphere's to glass (for glass just ask Conny at www.is.kiruna.se/~cjo
and I am sure he'll know!).

 I made a tube and used the same glass attributes. Grouped all objects and used
the SLICE option of Imagine to cut the top off the two spheres. The glass was
ready...

 A third sphere with MILK attributes (should I be proud of how realistic I can
make glass?) was SLICEd again to be leveled lower than the tip of the glass.
now here is the cool part! I wanted to simulate the whole milk's surface
tention
effect and used some other feature of Imagine to make that side curve. However,
I forgot to do the same for the straw's interaction with the surface and you
can clearly see that part is bad!

 For the straws I used simple tubes but I didn't like the typical
semi-transparent
straws so I just made it some _plastic_like_ red (looks like poly-propelene to
me!


 I rendered at 512x400 on a PC and Imagine crashed on me about twice while
making
the objects as I remember. The picture is not good but I thought I'd put it up
anyway. If anyone likes the glass attributes I can look at my notes and submit
it
to the Imagine mailing list. Did you notice how bad the polygons look on the
glass surfaces?