TITLE: Galilei
NAME: Theodorich Kopetzky
COUNTRY: Austria
EMAIL: theo@tk.uni-linz.ac.at
WEBPAGE: http://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at 80/~theo/fancy.htm
TOPIC: Glass
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: tkgalile.jpg
ZIPFILE: tkgalile.zip
RENDERER USED: PovRay 3.00e/3.01
TOOLS USED: 
   Moray 2.5     for modeling
               Photoshop 3.0 to insert logo and e-mail address

RENDER TIME:   approx. 32 hours
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133 MHz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A rather interesting piece of glass is this thermometer built after an idea of
Galileo Galilei.
It consists of a tube of glass filled with a liquid. Within this liquid are some
balloons made of glass, filled with a different liquid (of different color).
Differences of the buoyancy at different temperatures makes the balloons rise
or fall and so you can tell the temperature.

So this is ideal for this topic (lots of glass, liquids, reflections,
refractions etc. ).

The thermometer is setup as if a photograph is being taken for some kind of
product catalog. The camera position may seem a little bit unusual for a
product catalog, but you get nice refractions this way ;) .


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The picture was modelled using Moray 2.5 and was rendered with Povray 3.0e or
3.01.
Max_trace_level is not set very high (only to 20) because with higher values
Povray crashes.

The blue texture is just blue color with some wrinkles.

Source:
Everything including Moray model file is provided.