EMAIL: mfraser@kw.igs.net
NAME: Morgan Hamish Fraser
TOPIC: Time
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.0 Beta 7, Windows beta 13
TOOLS USED: Microsoft Excel, LPARSER, Corel Photopaint, FRGEN
RENDER TIME: 7 hours 41 minutes
HARDWARE USED: 486 DX-50 - 8Mb Ram
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
    A time machine currently sitting beside a rather new medieval castle.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
    This is one of my early attempts at creating something using a raytracer.  After some thought, I came up with the idea of doing a time machine - I've always been facinated with the possibility and paradoxes associated with the subject.  The machine itself is actually modeled after a concrete toboggan which myself and some friends built for a competition in Winnipeg earlier this year - There are of course a few differences.
	The entire machine itself was done using a piece of paper with a blueprint sketch on it, and a text editor.  The LED console on the front was drawn using Corel Photopaint. To add a little more realism to the machine, I made all the metallic surfaces slightly dented. The glowing auras around the metal bulbs at the top of the machine represent some kind of temporal distortion field used for the time travelling.  They were created using the new Halos of POVRay 3.0. 
	One the actual machine was done, I contentrated on the scenery.
	The tree which you see were created by simplifying one of the sample trees which came with LPARSER. The leaves are simulated using a green halo.
	The mountains in the background are a simple height field with a texture gradient which gradually changes the texture from grass at the bottom to naked rock near their peaks.
	The other rocks scattered around are just a sphere which had been run through FRGEN and then scaled and rotated for variety.
	The castle is just a collection of blocks which I stuck together. The moat around it is a height field stuck into the ground.
	The flag on the tower took a little more work. To get a realistic shape, I used Excel to calculate the equation of an appropriate looking curve, and then used the mathematical functions of povray to draw it using triangle.  Unfortunately, the flag is too far away to make out any of the detail that I put in.