TITLE: The bottle NAME: Mika Nieminen COUNTRY: Finland EMAIL: warp@iki.fi WEBPAGE: http://iki.fi/warp/ TOPIC: Landmarks COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: bottle.jpg ZIPFILE: bottle.zip RENDERER USED: UVPov alpha 5.4 TOOLS USED: Povray's own text editor, Microsoft paint, image alchemy RENDER TIME: 21 hours 1 minutes 36.0 seconds (75696 seconds) HARDWARE USED: Pentium-II 350MHz 128MB IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Unfortunately the Bottle is the most important landmark in the life of too many people. I certainly hope it's not the most important landmard in your life. This is intended to be a serious image since alcoholism is a serious problem. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Nothing special really. Lathes (bottle, cork, glass, ash-tray) and superellipsoids (table, chair). Radiosity for better illumination and photon mapping for better caustics. The text in the bottle label was made with MS paint and blurred with image alchemy. I used max_trace_level 12 which was not enough (gray areas in the bottle), but I thought that 21 hours was enough (on the other hand, setting the max_trace_level much higher would have converted those gray areas into bright white; I don't know which is better...)