TITLE: "The Happy Labrat". NAME: Justin Dougall. COUNTRY: Australia. EMAIL: squeak@wasp.net.au. WEBPAGE: None as yet. TOPIC: The Laboratory. COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: happylab.jpg RENDERER USED: Under-utilized MegaPOV 0.5a. TOOLS USED: Win3D, Windows Paint, Irfanview. RENDER TIME: 1 hour 17 mins. HARDWARE USED: IBM Aptiva 82A (733Mhz PIII, 128Mb RAM). IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Originally a desktop for a lovely woman I worked with at a laboratory in Darwin, revamped for this competition & based on a true story. One Christmas works party, cocktail shooters were served in testtubes to the delight of all (still standing), with Gin being Fifi's favourite poison I had the basis for this image. The persons & events in this image are fictitious, any similarity to actual persons or events is purely intentional. No animals were harmed in the making of this image, though some people did get drunk ;) DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The hand was collected from 3Dcafe.com & converted to POV with Win3D, all other objects were hand made in POV or Windows Paint for the image_maps. Image_maps are cylindrical mappings on either super_ellipsoids or difference cylinders. The testtube rack & beakers are loosely based on the real thing although I'm sure that "AnalaR" have never produced analytical grade gin. No source code has been included as I am too ashamed of the messiness :) If you get a laugh from this then it was worth the effort, long live POV-Ray.