TITLE: Eye of the Storm
NAME: Rik Bain
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: rwb0517@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
WEBPAGE: http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~rwb0517
TOPIC: Glass
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: rbglass.jpg
ZIPFILE: rbglass.zip
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0
TOOLS USED: None
RENDER TIME: 2 hours 36 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Pentium-120

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

I have had the Eye of the Storm for about 8 years, and have been wondering
how much longer it will hold on ( yes, it still works ).  It usually sits
on my TV but since the my TV is absent from the image, I decided to put it
on my coffee table, which just so happens to be made of... ...Glass.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

Actually it started with my immortalization of my Eye of the Storm, which
is just a box, couple of cylinders, and two CSG spheres to make the glass
ball.  Then I cut out the sliders for the switches and used half cylinders
for the actual switches.  The text is Arial.ttf, which was integrated using
the wonderful text{} command.

The table is cylinders for the tube base with a superellipsoid for the 
glass base. 

As for the rest of the scene, I used a yellow/red wood pattern,
which may or may not have been used before, and the wallpaper is a crackle 
pigment map.  The dartboard and dart set is from one of my first images, it
is not glass related, but upon creating it/them, I was very impressed what
could be done without using modellers and the such.