E-MAIL: sroberts@learn.senecac.on.ca NAME: Sonya Roberts TOPIC: Time COPYRIGHT: I submit to the standard Raytracing Competition copyright. RENDERER USED: POVRay 3.0 (beta 6 & beta 7) TOOLS USED: Terrain Maker ver. 1.1, (c) Eric Jorgensen 1994 RENDER TIME: 2 hours, 10 minutes, 7 seconds HARDWARE USED: 486 running at 33 MHz IMAGE DESC.: A melange of different time-keeping devices, including a sundial, hourglass, partial circle of standing stones, and a patio laid out as a clock face with the hands pointing at 10 minutes past 10. For some reason clock faces in advertisements most commonly have their hands in this position. IMAGE CREATION: I wrote the .POV script for this image entirely "off the cuff", working mainly from mental images, though on occasion I roughly sketched out what I intended to create to better keep track of the needed parts, relative sizes of components, etc. I've only had POVRay 3.0 for two or three weeks, prior to which I was still using an old copy of version 1.something -- this image was my first real experiment with the newer version. I was very pleased with the final result. The tree was my first experiment with using a somewhat "fractal" method of assembly to create a reasonably realistic end problem - I started by creating a leaf, then a small twig with four leaves attached - one at the tip, and three spiraling down the twig at even intervals. I then created another twig twice as big, and attached the smaller twig to it in the same pattern. And a small branch, with four copies of the small branch. And a large branch, with four copies of the small branch, and finally the tree itself, with four copies of the large branch. These can be found near the end of my TEN_TEN.POV file as Leaf, Twig1, Twig2, Twig3, Twig4, and Tree. To create a more "sun kissed" look without the tree becoming overly bright, I applied a gradation to my leaf shape that shaded from a dark green at the base to a bright green at the tip. I also created a simple flower to add a more organic feel to the image. The final image was rendered at 640x480 with anti-aliasing. ABOUT ME: I am a first-year student at Seneca College in Toronto, Ontario. I am attending the School of Communication Arts campus, where I am taking a 2-year course in Computer Graphics - Illustration (i.e., animation and multimedia). This is the first time I've submitted an image for a contest. I will be graduating in the spring of 1997.