This is my first contribution to the POV group project. I won't have much spare time in the next month or so due to my winter wholesale shows, so I decided to get this in a little early.
This is a 3D representation of one of my glass works, a decanter and goblet set. There are several distinct features that characterize my work: the conic bases, the fish ornament on the stopper, the striped lip-wraps and stem-beads, and the frit (crushed glass) decoration on the clear part of the vessels. There is also the distinct decorative pattern on the base and stopper which I represented with a layered texture. I was as careful as I could afford to be about not using triangles to build any part of these objects, but there are eight torus's and the fish is composed mainly of bezier patches. There is only one image map, used to do the striped lip-wraps. The pov file used to create the map is included here. The biggest problem with these objects is that they are textured in glass, and will render slowly.
I have kept the files seperate to make it easier to decipher. If Truman wants to, he can paste them all together into one file to include in the final group scene. If he chooses to do that, he must place the texture data in the file ahead of the goblet and decanter data.
Finally, I modeled these objects in MORAY and then heavily tweaked the resulting files. The objects themselves have been rotated <-90, 0, 0> to orient them so that y=up. However, the x coordinate will still be reversed. This should not matter in the appearance of the pieces since they are perfectly symmetrical, but further transformations of these objects may require either scale <-1, 1, 1> or simply reversing the direction of the x value in the transformation.
