EMAIL:  chipr@email.niestu.com
NAME:  Chip Richards
TOPIC:  Time
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED:  POV-Ray 3.0.beta.7d under Linux
TOOLS USED:  Sced (modeller), hf-lab (heightfield generator), gimp (image
             manipulation)
RENDER TIME:  2 hours, 45 seconds
HARDWARE USED:  486 DX/2-66
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Title:  "And Having Writ, Moves On"

Once I was out picking wild asparagus with my mother and brother, and I
commented on how odd that, unlike the wild berries, it grew only in this one
field.  My mother told me that the asparagus wasn't really wild.  When I asked
what she meant, she drew aside a nearby patch of brambles and showed me that
the lump underneath them was actually a foundation stone of an old house.  My
brother then pointed out a few other features, and suddenly it all sprang into
focus--I saw where the house had been, the barn, the outhouse, the well, the
garden.  Some fifty-odd years before, someone had called this weedy field
home.

When I drove past the same spot some twenty years later, I noticed that
someone had built a spanking new house on almost exactly the same spot.  The
asparagus was gone.

It is up to the audience to decide which direction my sundial is going, to
determine whether it is building or destroying.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

Modelled entirely with Stephen Chenney's excellent sced modeller.  Some hand
work was needed for some of the heightfield intersections.  I had originally
envisioned a much more detailed townscape, but real life kept intruding, and I
ran out of time.  Funny, that, should have traced up a few spare hours, eh?

Credit also to John Beale for hf-lab, forger of the delightful landscape, and
to Peter Mattis, Spencer Kimball, and all the other contributors to the GIMP,
without which my entire image would have been gray.

And, of course, thanks in abundance to the POV-Ray team!

(The scene file, height fields, and image maps total well over 2mb.  I'd be
happy to provide details upon request.)