EMAIL:  kjs@vt.edu

NAME:  Ken J. Shiring

TOPIC:  Time

COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.

RENDERER USED: Pov-Ray v3.0 beta

TOOLS USED: Moray v2.02.wat
            Graver for Windows
            Paint Shop Pro v3.11

RENDER TIME:  1 hour, 55 min, 13 sec

HARDWARE USED:  Pentium 66mhz
                Pentium 166mhz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:  Ornamental clock on a mantelpiece


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

  With a lot of work :).  All modeling was done in Moray v2.02, with the image maps
created with Paint Shop Pro v3.11 and Graver for Windows.  All textures are modified
versions of the ones that come in the standard Pov-Ray libraries.  This clock design is
an (almost) exact copy of a clock I have at home.  The clock face has been replaced for
visual reasons.
  This is the first real scene I have ever rendered and seen by anyone but me, so go easy
on the criticism :-).  Without a doubt the hardest element to produce was the clock hands.
Every detail on them is meticulously recreated to match the original.  The hands took over
 one half of the total design time of the clock.  The handle was created in AutoCAD v12, 
and exported as a mesh and integrated into the scene.  There are a few things about this 
scene that didn't turn out quite right in my opinion, but over all I am very satisfied 
with the outcome.
  Thanks to Moray's excellent design paradigms, the number of objects in this scene was
kept to a comfortable minimum.  I think Both machines I developed this scene on had 16 
megs of RAM, so I have no idea whether it will render on anything less (but probably 
will).  If this scene does at all decently in the voting, I will probably register
Moray :).

K.J.S.