EMAIL: weav9467@cs.uidaho.edu NAME: Tim Weaver TOPIC: Space COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0 for Linux TOOLS USED: None RENDER TIME:2 hours 13 minute 37 second. HARDWARE USED: 486 DX-4 100MHZ IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This is a rendering of my girlfriend's lava lamp. It is sitting on a desk next to a window with a great view of outer space, and a nice serene blue and green planet. A nice reminder of home for the traveler. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I have only been using Povray for a short while, and I decided that I would like to play with glass textures and reflections. I started out with the lava lamp. It is just a bunch of cones, blobs, and spheres, merged, unioned, and differenced. The glass texture is a good representation of the real glass, expecally the way it distorts the objects behind it. I decided later to put it in some sort of scene, and this was the result. It was hard deciding on an object for the left side of the scene. I went from nothing, to a floating lamp, to a lamp that looked like a barbell, etc... Finally my girlfriend came up with the idea of the pendulum "clacker".