EMAIL: bill.marrs@pureatria.com NAME: Bill Marrs TOPIC: Time COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: My Friend Mickey COUNTRY: USA WEBPAGE: http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/bill/raytrace RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0 TOOLS USED: torpatch and font3d RENDER TIME: 16 hours 37 minutes HARDWARE USED: Pentium-90 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I spent a long time thinking about time, until I came up with something truly timeless - then I realized that that would be no good, so I decided to do this Mickey Mouse watch. Mickey has always been a friend to me, and he's always given me the right time! DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The watch-band texture was derived from a texture I found at the POV-Textures Library http://nlic2.questint.com/texture/home.htm. The watch itself is a fairly basic CSG structure with several cylinders. The Mickey Mouse is where I spent most of my time. He's mostly a collection of blob objects, but parts of him (his arms) are torus patches (I used torpatch to create these). The numbers on the watch face were made by font3d and the bubble.ttf true type font that came with Corel Draw. The textures were simple (glossy plastic), of course the watch band is more complicated, but I was able to adapt a alligator-skin texture by reducing it's bumpiness and changing it's color to look like a watch band.