Cant leave it alone. I guess I'll use this as a light source training tool! Will have to keep massaging the flourecent.

I can't leave it alone either. Here's the same image brightened up and tweaked a little. I also made a model with a tube inside a tube but can't really get anything useful out of it.

Thats a great result Ray. I like the area where the bulb touches the floor. Did you get that with the render or touchup? Much Better!

Thanks. I did a bunch of re-renders adjusting the luminosity and colors. Then post with Picasa to add contrast and balance the lighting.

Here's the tutorial that I promised for the process of exporting into Blender and rendering with Lux Render.

http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=2652.1