TITLE: An Evil Experiment
NAME: Jillian Howell
COUNTRY: Australia
EMAIL: howelljf@optusnet.com.au
WEBPAGE: I don't have one, sorry ( not set-up anyway )
TOPIC: The Laboratory
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: jfhbeans.jpg
ZIPFILE: jfhbeans.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-ray for Windows v3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray for Windows v3.2
            Microsoft Paint (Windows 98)
            Imaging for Windows

RENDER TIME: 
    9 hrs 50 min 5 sec

HARDWARE USED: 
    Optima PC with a pentium III 450 MHz processor, 128 MB RAM
               & Trident Blade 3D PCI/AGP

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    I have tried to be fairly realistic, but for the
                   scientists out there who will notice, I know that
                   no-one would set up a distillation quite like this,
                   but a bunsen burner looks good hey? & who but lab
                   staff would know what a heating mantle was?  As to
                   the potential explosive properties of pure fart &
                   the wisdom of using a fume-hood...well I will just
                   plead artistic licence.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THE IMAGE WAS CREATED: I used Moray to develop the
     concept & work out the dimensions of the more complex shapes,
     including the bicubic patch, but the final version is coded in 
     POV-ray.  My textures are developed mostly by starting with the
     most appropriate texture from the pov-ray include files & 
     adjusting to fine-tune the result.  The bottle label is hand-drawn
     & scanned for an authentic look.  The can label is drawn using 
     Paint & a portion of the beans bitmap.  The beans bitmap is the 
     product of an obliging friend, the scanner & a real can of baked
     beans! It was replicated & edited using Imaging & Paint. 
     P.S. This is my first ever ray-traced image, I hope you like it.           
  

