EMAIL: multix79@yahoo.com
NAME: Riccardo Mottola
TOPIC: Laboratory
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Chemistry
COUNTRY: Italy
WEBPAGE: www.geocities.com/multix79/
RENDERER USED: MacMegaPov 0.5
TOOLS USED: MacMegaPov 0.5, pencil and paper
RENDER TIME: 115h 35min
HARDWARE USED:  Apple Macintosh Quadra840 AV (mc68040), 80MB ram, MacOS 8.1, other usual stuff like disks and ZIP
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: It is a simple composition of some glassware used in a laboratory.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
This image wasn't born for IRTC. I started creating it for the sake of experimenting with glass. I had seen many images (including my own) created with various programs that were unsactisfying in that sense.
So i took out my old chemistry stuff and tried to model them as close as possibly, this implied using varying glass thinkness and it accustomized me with the lathe tool in PoV.
The I filled some of them and this led to some problems, to get a realistic effect not only IOR was to be realistic, but also the parameters for the "water" needed more that just filter.
Also on the glass i worked closely on the reflection, the phong highlights to get a mixture or realistic glass and of good-looking one. So you can see how the dark areas are rendered well in the curves of the glasses.
I arranged the scene, applied some procedural textures and worked on the light to get the best result on transparency and on caustics. I really had the bottles on my table and played with them.
At the end I was satisfied and a friend of mine suggested that it was the current theme for IRTC so i submitted it. This is the reason why the scene is not scenic. But I like it nevertheless. It's a study.
No external modeler was used, except for the utilities given with MacMegaPov.