EMAIL: roth@ens.ascom.ch
NAME:  martin roth
TOPIC: Time
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPY-
RIGHT.
RENDERER USED: PovRay 3.0beta 6 (watcom)
TOOLS USED: None except Norton Commander Texteditor
RENDERER TIME: 16 min.
HARDWARE USED: PC (Pentium 133)
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I'm trying to give a feel of time 'running' by
                   showing an almost empty hourglass and an almost
                   burnt-down candle.
                   Technical aspect: I'm trying to show how powerful
                   the lathe-primitive is.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
                   I started building a column of the hourglass to
                   get the feel for the lathe. As I used *only* a
                   texteditor, it was quite hard to find the coordinates
                   for a descent looking glass.
                   The sand is made of a lathe, too, using almost the same
                   coords like the glass, only a bit smaler. Used the
                   "crand graininess" to make it look like sand. Observed
                   that crand is behaveing funny for different light settings.
                   Added the candle for more "action". The halo for the flame
                   is taken from "emitting.pov" that comes with povray 3.0
                   All other textures (DMFDarkOak, grnt, and glass) are
                   the standart textures supplied by povray 2.2
                   The flame actually contains 3 lightsources to make the
                   picture more "living".