TITLE: The bottle
NAME: Mika Nieminen
COUNTRY: Finland
EMAIL: warp@iki.fi
WEBPAGE: http://iki.fi/warp/
TOPIC: Landmarks
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: bottle.jpg
ZIPFILE: bottle.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    UVPov alpha 5.4

TOOLS USED: 
    Povray's own text editor, Microsoft paint, image alchemy

RENDER TIME: 
    21 hours 1 minutes 36.0 seconds (75696 seconds)

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium-II 350MHz 128MB


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

  Unfortunately the Bottle is the most important landmark in the life of
too many people. I certainly hope it's not the most important landmard in
your life.
  This is intended to be a serious image since alcoholism is a serious
problem.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

  Nothing special really. Lathes (bottle, cork, glass, ash-tray) and
superellipsoids (table, chair). Radiosity for better illumination and
photon mapping for better caustics. The text in the bottle label was
made with MS paint and blurred with image alchemy.
  I used max_trace_level 12 which was not enough (gray areas in the bottle),
but I thought that 21 hours was enough (on the other hand, setting the
max_trace_level much higher would have converted those gray areas into
bright white; I don't know which is better...)

