EMAIL: rore@raymation.co.uk
NAME: Raymond Ore
TOPIC: Glass
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Chemical Capers
COUNTRY: UK
WEBPAGE: http://www.raymation.co.uk
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0
TOOLS USED: Pen and paper
RENDER TIME: 73 hours 23 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Pentium-100

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

When I first thought about this competition I had in mind to do a church stain glass window but whilst
searching for reference I saw a photograph of some bottles with only one in focus, I then thought of glass containers in a lab with different coloured liquids, then this picture was born.
I'm not happy with the amount the picture is out of focus, I wanted a lot more but the render time was getting to long plus in the scene file I've got soft shadows defined but again render time prohibited, maybe
when I get 400mhz pentium pro with MMX.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

Construction? well the bottles are lathe objects but after finishing I discovered a surface of revolution
might of been better. The petra dishes are a collection of tubes, disks and a torus CSG'ed to make them solid and the refraction to work properly. Textures are all slightly modified standard textures. I wanted 
a spiral of glass in there somewhere but my old copy of Spiral and CTDS only works for the old POV
syntax, is there an updated version ?
Thanks for reading this far.
Ray.