EMAIL: sgowers@us.oracle.com
NAME: Steve Gowers
TOPIC: Time
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0 beta for Windows
TOOLS USED: Fractal Design Dabbler 2
RENDER TIME: 4hours 44min
HARDWARE USED: Pentium P-90

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
'Precision'
This is a view of the gears of a pocket watch loosely based on a picture I 
found of a Gruen watch made in 1924. I've had to take some liberties translating what 
I could see into a 3D image, so if you're a watchmaker I apologise for whatever
mistakes there are. 
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
Everything was created manually as it was more satisfying than using a modeller. The 
shapes of the plates and case of the watch are all curved in several dimensions 
by using cut-outs from spheres and torii to produce smoother highlights.
Repeating objects such as the teeth on the gears and the knurled knob are done with 
looping 'while' directives.
Wooden textures are from the Povray Include files with some modifications. The inlay 
on the box is original as is the texture used for the coloured pencils which is done 
simply with a single stretched onion colour-map. The drawing is done using Dabbler's 
tools. What took the most time was getting the viewpoint and textures and lights to 
look right.