EMAIL: firestar@eskimo.com
NAME: Ryan Wellman
TOPIC: Time
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: WinPov 3.0beta7a
TOOLS USED: Corel Draw v3.0
RENDER TIME: 2 hours 2 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

        This image is actually a hybrid of two ideas that I came up with
shortly after I heard that this competition was being held again.  The
first was a room full of all sorts of clocks scattered around randomly.
The second was to have a series of images of a plant starting from a
seedling growing into adulthood, then aging and dying.  With all the
images positioned in a spiral in front of a large clock face.  Well,
somehow those two ideas ended up resulting in the current picture.  

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

	The textures were all from the standard PovRay texture library
(this is my second real image and I haven't figured out how to make decent
textures yet).  The face of the clock was drawn in Corel Draw, I don't
remember which font I used for it though. 

        The entire scene was designed using only using pen, paper, my
mind, and a few accidents thrown in for good measure. :)  For the placing
of most of the clocks, and for creatting the vaulted pillars next to the
face of the clock I used povray v3's looping features.  The clock itself
consists mainly of boxes and cylinders.  The pattern at the top of the
clock consists of twelve tori.  The chain link consists of a lot of
streached out tori.

        In all it took me about a 4 weeks on and off to design the
grandfather clock and three days to do the final possitioning and
rendering of everything.