Ray tracing
Modification of a Glassdemo by Gilles Tran. The scene was newly rendered in Povray.
It is a modification of an awardwinning Povray project
by the French artist
Gilles Tran who put the
source code into the public domain. The original picture had been the Picture of the Day on
Wikipedia on August 2, 2006. The photorealistic picture also illustrates a technology called radiosity.
Click onto the picture to see it larger (and then click again to see that larger 4800*1600 pixel picture).
Note that all objects are defined mathematically in three dimensions, there is no manual photoshopping nor
any other processing involved. The lighting and everything was computed within the picture using light bouncing off the
scene. Every thing is open source and free from companies possibly pulling the software at some point.