Front View Floating

1200 by 675 with caustics, shows vase floating above the floor, light directly above

Front View

1600 by 1200 image with 64 pixel samples, light from above

Side View with Two Lights

1280 by 960 and caustics gallore, light comming from the top and front right

Side View Two

1200 by 675 vase floating at angle creating caustincs we saw when holding the vase against sunlight

Yummy

480 by 360 an early attempt with fake shadows that looked particularly tasty

Physics

480 by 360 the same scene as yummy rendered with "physically correct" caustics

Close Up

362 by 653 a cropped version of the front view

Deeply Saturated

1024 by 768 the judges very much liked this image and it has a very intresting complexity to it - the texture map was double mapped creating a deep red tone