TITLE: A clock in a museum
NAME: Mauro Pierluigi
COUNTRY: Italy
EMAIL: pm@usa.net
WEBPAGE: -
TOPIC: Night
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: 012042.jpg
ZIPFILE: 012042.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.02 for Windows 95

TOOLS USED: 
    PhotoShop for converting and adding the signature

RENDER TIME: 
    22 minutes 31 seconds

HARDWARE USED: 
    PC AMD K6 233MHz, 64 Mb Ram


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


01:20 am, an old museum with an old clock inside and a spotlight pointing at it,
nothing else than the silence and the reverbering tic-toc of the clock.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


This is my first image created in POV-Ray excluding extruded logos and words,
that I usually need to do for work.

First of all I created a white cylinder where I wrote the roman numbers and all
the points, I used a routine for locating the little points every x degrees.
Then i added other cylinders, torus, spheres to create the golden structure of
the clock. 

The glass bell was created using a blob with only one cylinder in it, duplicated
and used in difference with the original one, then I gave a clear glass
material to it and scaled to fit perfectly on the scene.

The base where the clock is located was simply created with union and difference
with torus and cylinder objects, then duplicated 4 times and deformed a
little.

Other than that there is an half tube and a plane to create some background,
ambient light, reflections and thing like that.

In the beginning I just gave basic colors to all the objects to save time during
the test renderings, then in the end I choose all the materials and applied
them to the objects. 

The image can get better adding some particulars like a mark plaque on the
golden base or some words in old style directly in the white parts of the
clock. Maybe putting all the things in a big sphere with some yellow-brown
texture will help to eliminate the reflections when they are too black.