TITLE: 19th Century Lab
NAME: Bob Franke
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: bfranke2@home.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/bob_franke/pov/pov.htm
TOPIC: The Laboratory
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IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

This is a late night view of a 19th century lab. The scientist 
is taking a break to rest his eyes and contemplate his 
striking discovery.  

Everything in the image was available at that time.  The 
lacquered-brass monocular microscope is by Schiek in Berlin, 
circa 1860.  The lamp is a copy of English, 4th quarter 19th 
century, paraffin oil microscope lamp by Watson & Sons, London.  
Mass production of ceramic tiles, used for the table top, 
started in the mid 1800's. The yellow pencil, with the eraser 
on the end, has been around since the late 1800's.  In view of 
these dates, this late 19th century lab is equipped with the 
latest high tech tools.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The parts of the microscope include a lathe object for the main 
tube, a prism for the slide clips a couple of superellipsoids 
and some boxes and cylinders.  The mirror is concave with its 
focal point about 4 inches above the microscope slide.  To 
simulate light reflected to the glass slide, there is a 
cylindrical spotlight just above the mirror pointing straight up.

The microscope bottle and the chimney are also lathe objects.  
The rest is a bunch of cylinders, tori and spheres.  Unfortunately 
the wick and fuel inside the bottle are not visible in this scene. 

The ceramic tiles are superellipsoids.  The top sheet of the note 
pad is a couple of bicubic_patches with an image map for the 
writing.  The pencil is made with a hexagon object and some cones 
and cylinders.

Well, that's about it.  Good luck to all.

