EMAIL: adrian.baumann.1@sm-philhist.unibe.ch
NAME: Adrian A. Baumann
TOPIC: Time
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: winpov 3.0beta
TOOLS USED: PSP 32-bit
RENDER TIME: 2h 13m
HARDWARE USED: Pentium-100, HP-Scanjet 2c

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Among other hobbies, I have a small collection of Russian watches.
As I usually have a Molnija-pocketwatch with me, I started coding it in POV. However, the results never quite pleased me, so I gave it up.
Two days later, my Molnija broke down. No kidding! I dug out an old Admiralskije-wristwatch, which I have been wearing since. To take revenge on the Molnija, I coded the Admiralskije ("The Admiral's") instead. In the picture, it lies on a sheet of my notes from an endless lecture, so there's the topic of time as well.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The scene has been modelled in the best modeller around: POVEDIT 32-bit, the text-editor of PovWin3.
The watch consists of four major CSG-Objects. There's the Ring with the numbers on it, the body, the dial and the glass. The date-window on the dial is the only image-map apart from the page. The rest of the dial is mainly boxes, cylinders and spheres (Long live the #while-loop!).
The text is set in "Jikharev", which has a russian character set included. The anchor and the star are designed in Corel-Draw and exported as TrueType-fonts.
The hands of the watch are just your basic prisms, the wristband a CSG of boxes,
cylinders and spheres.
The glass is a difference of two spheres, intersected with a cylinder. It is just very slightly reflective, as higher reflectivities obscure the dial.
The pencil was just a last-minute idea and is coded as a CSG-object at the end of the source-file.
Talking of which: The source does not include the image-map for the page. It is far too big! Just take any old image called "Page.gif", ideally with an aspect-ratio of 5 high, 3 wide.

Thank you for reading all that stuff. 
Ade