EMAIL: a.marins@ig.com.br NAME: Alfredo Roberto Marins Jr. TOPIC: Great Inventions COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Edison's Idea COUNTRY: Brasil RENDERER USED: AutoCAD 2004 RENDER TIME: 5 min HARDWARE USED: Pentium IV, 128Mb RAM. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Thomas Edison, inventor, made 10.000 tests to create a bulb lamp that work correctly. So, in the picture, we can see his notebook, when he writes all tests. Every one is as Edison said "The wrong way to create a bulb lamp". But at the last one, it works, and he made a note: "Fiat Lux!" , the phase written in Bible used by God (in Latin), to create the light. As you can see, the lamp is working, without battery or another kind of energy, because it is the symbol of Edison's Idea. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 3D complex modeling, glass and plumb textures to create the lamp. Wood texture for the table and