EMAIL: mein@cs.umn.edu
NAME: Kent Mein
Topic: Time
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Ver 3.0.beta.7.Linux.gcc
TOOLS USED: MNM, winBlobs
RENDER TIME:  0 hours 36 minutes  37.0 seconds (2197 seconds)
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 75 with 16meg memory
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Death holding an hourglass running out of time.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:


The scythe: The blade is a CSG, basically I took a sphere and chopped it up.
While the handle is just a cylinder with a wood texture.

The hourglass: The hourglass itself is made up of 3 rotational objects
which I made in mnm.  the three parts are in the files base.inc, glass.inc
and pole.inc.  The sand inside of the hourglass was done using the new
halo effect.  there is a solid textured object with a halo object around
it and slightly larger.

Death:
The eyes of death are done with the halo effect also.
The hood was done with winblobs and then some CSG to carve out a place
for death's head.  (also to change the texture of the inside so it does
not reflect light).
Deaths hand was a blob done by hand using cylinders.

Background:
I toyed with a number of ideas for the background.  What I really
wanted to do was keep the hourglass and the blade of the scythe bright
and fade everything else.  I also wanted to have stars in the background
towards the top of the image, however when I put this in for some reason
the eyes disappeared.  If I had more time, I would have added more swirling
fog/mist.