TITLE: Untitled
NAME: Hugh Lim
COUNTRY: United States
EMAIL: hugh.lim@tws.com
WEBPAGE: still under construction.
TOPIC: Glass
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: untitled.jpg
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray.68k.NoFPU v3.0
TOOLS USED: tools? what tools? :)
RENDER TIME: dunno... but, probably took a long time... :)
HARDWARE USED: 
Macintosh 68030/25MHz w/o FPU w/ 4MB of RAM
               Sparc or P166 for the final render???


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

"A picture is worth the thousand words" - Try making up a title.  I
couldn't come up with anything. :)



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I would like to appreciate Jasper who rendered my picture for me.

*note: I submitted the picture without checking the final rendering to
see if anything was wrong, so there may be some things that doesn't look
quite right.  I have a slow computer(as you can see in the 'Hardware
Used') and I'm asking someone to render and upload it for me, so... 

This is about the third rendering I've don't so far(this could be
considered my first/second serious drawing), so any kind of comment
would be extremly appreciated.  I have absolutely no complaints about
POV so far.  It's an wonderful program... :)  Well, anyway, I'm just
getting used to all the commands and, on this round, I concentrated on
creating objects, as opposed to, on previous rounds, I did on
manipulating textures.

This scene is composed of about 2500 spheres/cylinders/boxes  But, the
source code is only about 30K in size including the targa file for
height_field (Amazing, isn't it? :)

-Background
I used simple bozo texture for the sky, light gray fog for the fog, and
a simple height_field generated using wrinkles.  For the raindrop, I
used #while loop and rand() to scatter few hundred glass/water textured
cylinders.

-Logs
It's a cylinder with lots of boxes around it. I used, for the texture, Wood12A
included in the POV
package, btw.

-Table
Just a couple of boxes with cylinder/sphere for the round edge.
*note: I was going to use superellipsoid, but I can't seem to make it
work for some reason.  I used a following statement:  superellipsoid{
0.2, 0.2 }.  Anyone know why?

-Vase
This probably took the longest time(especially since I didn't know that
merge takes much longer time than union when I was testing for its shape
:)  It's a rather simple vase considering that it only takes about 20
lines, but it generates approx. 1000~1500 spheres/cylinders depending on
its smoothness.

-Camera&Lighting
Took quite a while to position the camera, probably as much as producing
the vase.  Unfortunately, I didn't have time to adjust lighting to my
satisfaction(I really wanted to use a spot light for emphasize, but oh
well...)