TITLE: A Frozen Moment
NAME: Bob Franke
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: bfranke2@attbi.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/bob_franke/pov/pov.htm
TOPIC: Frozen Moment
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: a_moment.jpg
ZIPFILE: a_moment.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.5 for Windows

TOOLS USED: 
    POV editor, Paint Shop Pro for the watch face and JPEG conversion

RENDER TIME: 
    about 19 hrs.

HARDWARE USED: 
    generic Pentium-III 450 w/ 256 MB RAM



IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

A pocket watch in a block of ice, A Frozen Moment.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

A very simple image with my first use of 
isosurface's, black magic to me, and Photons.  

The block of ice is a very simple isosurface, using the f_superellipsoid 
function.  How other POV users develop functions to create a desired 
shape is beyond my math abilities.  Sometimes I think they just get a 
function to work and then try to find a use for the result.

The pocket watch is just a bunch of cylinders and tori.  I got 
lazy with the face and made an image map from a photo of a pocket 
watch on the Internet.  

I added focal blur, some ground fog and a couple of simple cones 
in the background.

That it, good luck to all in the competition.
Bob