EMAIL: Talon@Dial.Cic.Net
NAME: John N. Miller (aka. UNAPOVER)
TOPIC: Time
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Povray for Windows 1.0 beta 13
TOOLS USED: Calculator, Trigonometry, and mostly my brain, which hurts about now.
RENDER TIME:

Ray->Shape Intersection          Tests       Succeeded  Percentage
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Box                            2421756           25113      1.04
Cone/Cylinder                  1506599          394202     26.17
CSG Intersection               3359954          388493     11.56
CSG Merge                        84380            3139      3.72
CSG Union                       171077           74857     43.76
Disc                             87348            1949      2.23
Plane                          3647936         2098736     57.53
Sphere                         6193816         3722237     60.10
Torus                          1441269          304230     21.11
Torus Bound                    1441269          352371     24.45
Clipping Object                5136350          864798     16.84
Bounding Box                  20299974        12422733     61.20
Light Buffer                  19412131        11388664     58.67
Vista Buffer                  11576339         9340629     80.69
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Roots tested:               352371   eliminated:              139931
Calls to Noise:           10383152   Calls to DNoise:        1141328
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Shadow Ray Tests:          2033772   Succeeded:               249407
Reflected Rays:             476231
Refracted Rays:             115874
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Smallest Alloc:                 18 bytes   Largest:            16036
Peak memory used:          2750560 bytes
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Time For Parse:    0 hours  0 minutes  12.0 seconds (12 seconds)
Time For Trace:    0 hours 14 minutes  49.0 seconds (889 seconds)
    Total Time:    0 hours 15 minutes   1.0 seconds (901 seconds)

HARDWARE USED: Pentium 75 PCI w/16meg running under Windows95

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

After plodding along creating Hourglasses and Sundials I finally decided to render
my great-grandfathers pocket watch.  A family heirloom that was given to me some
time ago.  Several liberties where taken with the watch armatures but for the most
part is a replica of this relic from the early 1900's.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

This is the first ray-trace competition I have been in and enjoyed the diversity of
the topic, which is of special interest to me.  I have a great fondness for time
pieces of any era and collect them whem I can afford them.  Below I have sketched out
how I generated some of the features that may be of interest to some.


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                               Possible points of interest:
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Glass Dome: Took a large sphere and calculated the plane needed to give it the base
            width that I was after.  The bevel was taken from the same Common sphere
            and adjusted to mate with the Glass Dome.

Watch Face: Entirely generated from the Face.pov file included in this submission.
            Lets face it, I am no artist and this was the best and easiest way to
            generate a nice looking watch face. It consists of Cylinders/Triangles/
            Discs and of course Text.  Rendering was at 1024x768 AA 0.3, I am still
            unclear if the image size is important so I followed the bigger is
            better formula instead. Carefull, because of copyright laws I cannot
            include the fonts that I used with this file.  If you got'em great other-
            wise just use something else, some adjusting may be necessary though.
            My current font library which works well with PovRay 3+ is in excess of
            800+.

Chain: I figured the geometry out on this one after closely examining a braided
       chain.  I was nothing more than taking an elongated torus and roataing 36
       degrees while moving along an axis. Again heavy use of the "declaritive
       programming" here.  What a time saver..

Winder: I unioned a cone/sphere sheared by 2 planes front and back.  Then with
        the new "declaritive programming" I rotated it around a full 360 axis.
        This method gave me better results than just differencing the union with
        Boxes.

Matte:  For all textures I used the standard include files, except for the Matte
        this was my own creation.  The effect that I was going for was that of
        red crushed velvet.  Only you can tell me if I was successful.  Some
        people that I asked said yes, others said no, some said it looked like red
        cement!

I made heavy use of the new language declares in this version of Pov-Ray to reduce
the overall coding, but near the end of the project I was getting a little tired of
the same scene so it shows...

Comments/Recommendations are encouraged and welcome;