EMAIL: royha@tesi.net
NAME: Roy Mitchell Harper
TOPIC: Glass
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Love Sucks
COUNTRY: USA
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.01
TOOLS USED: Moray 2.5a
RENDER TIME: 1h 58m 38s
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133, 512k cache
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

I was feeling a little cynical one day, and became inspired to create this
statement ... er, image. Even if you don't presently agree with the sentiment,
hold on. I'm sure you will at least be _tempted_ to agree with it someday.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

One day, I was playing around with some of the turbulence settings on a bump
map. I discovered that setting "omega" to 1 created a nice, silky surface.
Hence, the background.

While walking around a mall, I noticed some glass paperweights that looked
much like the main object in the image. I liked the interaction between
refraction from the flat surfaces and the magnification from the curved
surfaces. Hence, the object.

As to the text ... I put some "switches" at the beginning of LS.POV. It will
change the text from "Love Sucks" to "Love Stinks" (for you J. Geils Band
fans), to "Celibacy Sucks" (my personal favorite), to "Celibacy Stinks".

Enjoy!

-- Roy

Also, the .POV/.INC files are set up to do a simple animation. Details are
mentioned at the beginning of LS.POV.