EMAIL: lowellr@globaldialog.com
     NAME:  Robert Lowell
     TOPIC: Glass
     COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
     TITLE: Silicon
     COUNTRY: USA
     WEBPAGE: None 
     RENDERER USED: Povray 3
     TOOLS USED: none, nada, zip - all pov 
     RENDER TIME: 30 hrs +
     HARDWARE USED: Pentium-166 64MEG
     IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
       If I remember rightly, the best glass is made from sand
     which has a high proportion of silicon in it.

     This picture has a lot of objects in it that are either made from
     covered with or filled with silicon.

     Some types of Pottery are baked with silicon sand glaze for
       smooth finishes. See the pottery in the glass case

     Silicon is used in polishes designed for marble type stones
      See the the two marble globes in the glass stands.

     The objects on the main table were first seen in a curio
     shop called "Silicon City" (really).

     The bitmaps were obtain from the BayWatch web site
       ( No further comment dared)

     DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

     LAMP
     I started out with the lamp shade. The last version of it
     is made of two boxes scaled to glass plate size set at a 45
     degree angle from each other this union was offset by .3 and
     rotated at 20 degree increments around a pole(skinny cylinder).
     The lamp table is a union of two very squished spheres, the
     inner(smaller) is metalic, the outer is a glass texture.
     There are 5 light sources inside the shade provide all the
     light for the image. The base of the lamp are more (bigger)
     glass plates rotated and translated in a spiral

     Table
     Basicily the same idea as the lamp base and table.

     Floor and walls
      Individual planks (boxes) with wood textures applied

     Globes
     Cylinders CGS - squished spheres unioned with the gold metal
     (more) squished spheres and 1 each not squished marble sphere.

     Picture Frames
     more ss

     Case
     NO SS Started out with large glass box CGS - to cut out the
     basic shape. Glass "plates" were then union in for the
     shelves sides and back. The pottery is SOR shapes.