EMAIL: royha@tesi.net NAME: Roy Mitchell Harper TOPIC: Glass COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Love Sucks COUNTRY: USA RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.01 TOOLS USED: Moray 2.5a RENDER TIME: 1h 58m 38s HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133, 512k cache IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I was feeling a little cynical one day, and became inspired to create this statement ... er, image. Even if you don't presently agree with the sentiment, hold on. I'm sure you will at least be _tempted_ to agree with it someday. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: One day, I was playing around with some of the turbulence settings on a bump map. I discovered that setting "omega" to 1 created a nice, silky surface. Hence, the background. While walking around a mall, I noticed some glass paperweights that looked much like the main object in the image. I liked the interaction between refraction from the flat surfaces and the magnification from the curved surfaces. Hence, the object. As to the text ... I put some "switches" at the beginning of LS.POV. It will change the text from "Love Sucks" to "Love Stinks" (for you J. Geils Band fans), to "Celibacy Sucks" (my personal favorite), to "Celibacy Stinks". Enjoy! -- Roy Also, the .POV/.INC files are set up to do a simple animation. Details are mentioned at the beginning of LS.POV.