EMAIL: no13@ozemail.com.au
NAME:  Nathan O'Brien
TOPIC: Time
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Povray Version 3 Beta 7
TOOLS USED: Modelled in Autocad using home made LSP editor. Image maps made
            with Paint Shop Pro.
RENDER TIME: 47 hours 11 minutes
HARDWARE USED: 486-66 with 16Mb ram & 80Mb free hard drive space.
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
The greatest TIME machine of all TIME, the TARDIS. Property of Doctor Who.
The Tardis has just landed inside some ancient building on a long forgotten
planet.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
Just as with the original BBC series this image started life
with a grand scheme in mind. Just like the BBC series it ran out of both
TIME and money. The original model had fluted corinthian columns and a lot of
background detail. When I first tried to render the final image my poor old
486 groaned for 20 hours before dropping its load and running out of memory.
Next I tried a Pentium 133, with lots of ram and memory, at work.
It crawled for 50 hours of parsing before I had to shut it down. The whole
weekend had been lost and I would not get another chance to run the image
on the Pentium until after the closing date. In desperation I cut out a
large amount of detail and ran the image on the 486.

In terms of the image composition I utilised two main themes. The first was
based on the story lines of the first season of Doctor Who. This gave me the
basic setting of a decaying building in a neo classic, romantic style. The
second influence was the science fiction art of Jim Burns. Given the strong
blue of the Tardis I was after an equally dynamic colour scheme. Jim Burns
has used similar colour schemes in many of his works.