EMAIL: balou@teleport.com
NAME: Brian Vandewettering
TOPIC: Time
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: winpov 3.0 Beta
TOOLS USED: Visual C++ to generate a dialog app which created helix.inc
RENDER TIME: 15 Hours 40 Minutes
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 75

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Initially, I was curious about glass blobs.  After trying a few things 
I realized that they could produce an interesting hourglass. This is 
one of my first images but I'm pretty happy with it. The fog depicts 
a sandstorm in progress.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The wood and stone textures are borrowed from the samples distributed 
with the Texture Magic program.  The sky sphere is found in POV's sky.inc.  

I used spherical glass blobs to get the hourglass shape with the 
Old Glass texture from POV's glass.inc.  

The triple helix wood shapes were created using CSG with the diffence of a 
cylinder and three clockwise helices formed from a series of spherical blobs. 
An identically sized, opposing object with three counter-clockwise helices joins 
the former in a union which defines the hourglass frame.  Please forgive the 
slight lack of symetry between the top and bottom, I just ran out of time.