EMAIL:  landj@andrews.edu
NAME:  Jeff Land
TOPIC:  Time
COPYRIGHT:  I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED:  Povray 3.0 beta 6
TOOLS USED:  Moray 2.0, Blob, and Paintshop Pro
RENDER TIME:  About 30 minutes.
HARDWARE USED:  486/66 DX2
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

        Since the topic is time, an hourglass naturally comes to mind.  Since
I'm only a beginner at raytracing (This is my first serious attempt at a good
image.  I'd only been playing around with Bezier Patches before hand), so I
decided that I might as well make my mark by entering a contest.  Well, the
image is of a wizard's desk, containing an hourglass, books on various
subjects of wizardly interests, and a paper depicting how to travel through
time.(Sorry the pper is more or less unreadable.  As I mentioned, I'm only a
beginner at this.  The paper would be quite amusing if you could read it.)
I intentionally did not put a background in, as I feel that it would interfere
with the atmosphere that the picture otherwise generates.  I hope everyone
enjoys the image.  An comments, suggestions, help, etc. would be appreciated!

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

        It wasn't that hard to model, just getting the blobs into the right
places was the hardest part.  Which was not really all that difficult.