TITLE: dshglass.jpg
NAME: David S. Helfrich, Jr.
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: David_Helfrich@msn.com
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: Glass
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: dshglass.jpg
RENDERER USED:        Pov-Ray for Windows (the official version)
TOOLS USED:        Pov-Ray for Windows, MicroGrafix Picture Publisher LE
RENDER TIME:    5 hrs.  20 min.
HARDWARE USED:        Packard Bell 166Mhz Pentium  16megs RAM 2Gig Hard Drive
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:  Glass objects on a table

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

        This is my first time using this new version of POV-RAY.  I got to use
some new features for the first time.  For example, the "Surface-Of-Revolution"
or "sor".  This allowed me to plot a kind of "cross section" of certain objects
such as the wine bottles, and let POV-RAY sweep around to make the 3-D object. 
I also used the "prism" key word to create the pyramids that make up the
jewelry box that contains the glowing sphere, as well as the glass sign that
sits at the front of the table.  The vase and wine glasses were created in the
same manner as the wine bottles.  The crystal bowl at the right was done the
old fashioned way with using constructive solid geometry.  I took the
difference of two concentric spheres, used the "clipped_by" command to cut it
into a hemishpere, then put a cylinder with a height of 2 units as the base. 
You may notice that I scaled the objects rather large so I wouldn't have to
spend too much time figuring out fractions of units for translating and
scaling.  This is just a personal preference.  The final object was rendered
and dumped in .tga format.  I then used Micro Grafix Picture Publihser LE to
convert it to .jpg format.