EMAIL: tom@tomandlu.co.uk
NAME:  Tom Melly
TOPIC: Laboratory
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Riding House Street Pathology Lab, Tuesday.
COUNTRY: UK
WEBPAGE: http://www.tomandlu.co.uk/
RENDERER USED: MEGAPOV 3.1g.wmp.0.6a (Win95)
TOOLS USED: None
RENDER TIME: about 5 hours
HARDWARE USED: P90 64mb

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I've tried to create a fairly mundane scene of a lab. worksurface. The boundaries of science are not being pushed, the laws of the universe are not being defined, and there's not a wizard refining his art for bloody miles. The cups are modelled on real objects - my father recently came out of hospital with several of the sputum ones. Right now they're filled with pickles.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Almost entirely basic CSG. The lettuce leaf is an iso-surface and the mayo. is placed with a trace macro, but that's about it for megapov. Oh, except the visible bunsen flame has no_shadow applied to it, and the turbulence showing on the cup comes from a differently-textured copy (using slope for soft-edges) with no_image and no_reflection applied to it.

It is, inevitably, quite a boring scene, but I'm quite pleased with it. Could do with more small details and bric-a-brac, and some surfaces could do with more "weathered" texturing (jpg compression did this for me in the case of the rubber bunsen pipe;)