TITLE: 19th Century Lab NAME: Bob Franke COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: bfranke2@home.com WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/bob_franke/pov/pov.htm TOPIC: The Laboratory COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: 19thlab.jpg ZIPFILE: 19thlab.zip RENDERER USED: POV-Ray for Windows Version 3.1g JPGFILE: 19thlab.jpg ZIPFILE: 19thlab.zip TOOLS USED: POV-Ray editor, Lview Pro for jpeg conversion and copyright note. Hp Scanner RENDER TIME: 25h 37m HARDWARE USED: generic Pentium-III 450 w/ 256 MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This is a late night view of a 19th century lab. The scientist is taking a break to rest his eyes and contemplate his striking discovery. Everything in the image was available at that time. The lacquered-brass monocular microscope is by Schiek in Berlin, circa 1860. The lamp is a copy of English, 4th quarter 19th century, paraffin oil microscope lamp by Watson & Sons, London. Mass production of ceramic tiles, used for the table top, started in the mid 1800's. The yellow pencil, with the eraser on the end, has been around since the late 1800's. In view of these dates, this late 19th century lab is equipped with the latest high tech tools. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The parts of the microscope include a lathe object for the main tube, a prism for the slide clips a couple of superellipsoids and some boxes and cylinders. The mirror is concave with its focal point about 4 inches above the microscope slide. To simulate light reflected to the glass slide, there is a cylindrical spotlight just above the mirror pointing straight up. The microscope bottle and the chimney are also lathe objects. The rest is a bunch of cylinders, tori and spheres. Unfortunately the wick and fuel inside the bottle are not visible in this scene. The ceramic tiles are superellipsoids. The top sheet of the note pad is a couple of bicubic_patches with an image map for the writing. The pencil is made with a hexagon object and some cones and cylinders. Well, that's about it. Good luck to all.