TITLE: 8 36 NAME: Matthew Milton COUNTRY: UK EMAIL: matthew_milton@hotmail.com WEBPAGE: N/A TOPIC: Absence COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: 836.jpg RENDERER USED: povray 3.6 TOOLS USED: povray editor, wings RENDER TIME: 41 hours 34 minutes 17 seconds HARDWARE USED: Pentium 2.8GHz (dual processor) IMAGE DESCRIPTION: On the way home on a summers evening I looked up to check my watch against Big Ben (I know it's the bell not the tower), but something wasn't quite right. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Wanted something with a recognisable outline in the clouds (the negative space concept). The image was created with a mixture of wings and csg. I'd never used wings before but it certainly speeded the creation of primitive objects on the clocktower. Used various macros to duplicate the objects for instance the following simple one to arrange the clockface elements. #macro Clockface(Obj, innerRadius, number, offset) #local i=0; #local segment = 360/number; #while (i