About this picture...
Lamps. 4 of 'em, even. Copies of course. The experiment here was to see if I could make a realistic looking lamp. With the glass and everything in place. Back then, I really wanted things to work the way they do in reallife.. and with that, killing the rendertimes. This probably took a week to render or something. With multiple PC's, iirc. Nowadays, I'd fake the lighting, which would probably look better, and be done with it in a day. heh