EMAIL: delfeld@uwplatt.edu
NAME: Neal Delfeld
TOPIC: time
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.7b
TOOLS USED: Fontlab 2.5, rods.exe(included)
RENDER TIME: About 13 hours
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 90, 16mb ram
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

This is the second in a series.  This bit is from the first:

	Choas and time.  This is rather representational.  A well ordered sphere 
	floating inside a different universe, where threads of time are well-ordered, 
	but by much different conventions.  

This picture has a more bird's nest quality to it.  I like the way the right side 
tends toward nothingness, and how this bubble of time is encased in the tangled rods.
I think it would have been slightly more effective if the time had been 3:22:32 or 
3:22:31, but that's for another time.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

In this one, the field of view is extend from the normal to 135 degrees.  I used a 
fisheye 'lens' so that the image is elliptical, and limited the image to 600x600, so 
it would be circular.  This was all inspired by thoughts on the first image, 
submitted as nrdtime.jpg.  I also changed the rods.pov file, and touched up rods.exe.  

Random rods made with a program I wrote, which is included in the .zip file.  The 
actual rod file I ended up using is rods.pov.
Glass sphere with insides removed.
Self-made "6" (actaully "a" in test.ttf) made with a friends copy of Fontlab 2.5.
Three cones, showing an actual time.  See the time_2.pov file.
I compiled it in Povray as a .tga file, then transferred it into .jpg using Graphic 
Workshop, the shareware version. 
Also included is the .ini file used.