EMAIL: ptdawson@voicenet.com NAME: Paul T. Dawson TOPIC: Time COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.0 beta 7b (DOS) TOOLS USED: DOS Edit, Pilot Pen, Paper, Pizza, Soda, Soft Pretzels. RENDER TIME: 8 Hours 53 Minutes 52 Seconds (+A0.3 +R3) HARDWARE USED: AMD 486-120 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: "Alicia Clock" - this is a clock (!) with a picture in the center. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The frame around the clock is a simple cylinder, with a few dozen notches and holes subtracted from it. The usual numbers (1 to 12) have been replaced with some letters (A to L to I to C to I to A). The letters are made with bitmaps. I tried using POV text (and failed). The bitmaps made the gradient color changes a million times easier! The bitmap in the center is from internet. It is available on about 437 different web pages, so the actual copyright status is rather murky. You can easily substitute any other picture! Just make it square (I used a size of 500x500), and change the filename in the POV source code. The hands are connected to little grooves in the frame. That's so they don't cover any of the picture! Little Oompa-Loompas live in the grooves, and push the hands around. They keep the hands aligned perfectly, by sending specially coded (base 7) messages back and forth (they roll colored marbles around in the grooves). Unfortunately, those little fellows didn't show up too well at this 800x600 resolution. Oh, well. ;-) On the sides of the picture are some spirals, made with metallic spheres. The "floor" is made from several hundred boxes. Each one is tilted at a random angle, to make something sort-of-like a heightfield. At the last minute (June 29th, yikes), I added a halo around the clock. It isn't very bright, but if you trace the scene WITHOUT the halo, there will be a very noticeable difference! Check the source for more details & copy the picture & have fun! NO Copyright: The official IRTC rules say "You may, of course, give your permission personally to anyone you like to [do] anything with the files.. they are yours!". So, here it is: There are NO restrictions on copying or displaying this picture. WWW, FTP, Usenet, T-Shirts, anything - it's free! Paul "I was just kidding about the Oompa-Loompas" Dawson