*************************** Ray-Tracing Competition ***************************** EMAIL: jlhote@planete.net NAME: LHOTE Jean-Claude ( GASSER Lionel ) TOPIC: Internet Ray-Tracing Competition - TIME - COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0 beta 6 & 7 TOOLS USED: Image-in ( Mustek scanner software ) , Moray 2.0g RENDER TIME: 12 h 30 min for the image-map and 14 h for the final one. HARDWARE USED: Pentium 166 - 32 Mo RAM, Mustek scanner IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This is a very humble tribute to the entire surrealistic work of SALVATOR DALI DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED : My work was based on the Dali's "Persistence of memory" painting: _ First, i have scanned this painting in an encyclopaedia of art. _ Then, i've placed it in a scene as an image-map with other classical objects on time subject (such as skull for death, clocks, hourglass...) _ This first image was enterely modellised with MORAY 2.0 and renderered with povray 3.0-b.6 ( saved as "icetime1.jpg" ) _ The final image is constituted with the first one and used as a secondary image-map in a final scene ( an iceman regarding and touching the painting in a special frozen space ) -> " THE FROZEN EFFECT OF TIME " _ This final image was renderered with povray 3.0-b.7 (saved as "icetime2.jpg" ) *********************************************************************************