EMAIL: BruceS@dsd.persetel.co.za
NAME: Bruce Sutherland
TOPIC: Time
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Corel Dream 3D 
TOOLS USED: Corel PhotoPaint
RENDER TIME: 2 hours 50 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Compaq DeskPro XL 560 - Pentium-90 , 20Mb RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Earth Time. A wacky image of a play on words.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

I started with an idea of doing an hour-glass, with lots of little clocks
falling through. 

I first built the clock, then the hour-glass. As I was putting them 
together, the previews were taking too long to render, so I substituted 
the clock with a simple sphere.

While this was going on I thought it would look pretty wacky, if I turned 
the sphere into a globe. I mapped a bitmap of the earth to this sphere 
and there it was.

Once this was done, I had this hour-glass, just floating there in 
blackness, I tried different backgrounds, shading, light effects, 
et cetera. I tried putting it on huge globe, but then it was just too 
much. I then browsed my machine, trying different bitmaps that I have, 
finally settling on the one I’ve chosen. 

The wood base and top are textured with one of the standard textures 
that ship with Corel. The metal struts are tweaked metal textures that 
ships with Corel as well. Another texture that ships with the product 
that I changed slightly to achieve the desired effect is the glass of 
the hour-glass.

The bitmap of the globe I had floating on my machine for a while, and 
I have no idea when or where I got it, the same goes for the "misty" 
bitmap I've used for the platform.

All of the "work" was done in Corel Dream 3D. I used Corel PhotoPaint 
to convert the image to a  Jpeg and to shrink it to 600x600.

I’ve included the Corel Dream 3D file, but remember using these files 
without giving the proper credit, is illegal, immoral and FATTENING.