EMAIL: mark@revcan.ca
NAME: Mark Mintz
TOPIC: Time
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION
COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POVRay 2.2
TOOLS USED: Corel 5.0, Corel PhotoPaint, DOS Edit
RENDER TIME: 5 Hours, 31 Minutes, 43 Seconds
HARDWARE USED: Silicon Graphics Indy (R5000 processor)
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
"Cross Time Train"
This is a scene from a short story I wrote about a commuter who 
travelled through time, rather than through space, to get to work.  
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
I started off with the basic "subway car" shape and then started 
poking holes in it for windows and stuff.  I put the station around 
it with the platform and added the rails.  The woman and the punker 
I did out in their own individual files first and then moved them 
over to be include files with whatever scaling and rotating was 
necessary.  The bitmaps for the logo on the subway car ("TTC - 
Temporal Transit Commission"), the "line signs" and the newspaper 
logo were all done in Corel Draw and then exported as TGA files.  
I had to modify some of the colors so they'd render properly and 
that was done in PhotoPaint.
Most of the development work was done on my 486 2/50 at home and 
at lunch on my P75 at work, but the final render was shipped over 
to one of the SGIs we use at work. (You gotta love those blue boxes!)  
I figure that the P75 would have taken about three times longer 
to render.