EMAIL: mbecroft@tos.ak.planet.gen.nz
NAME: Mario Becroft
TOPIC: Time
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITIONS COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 2.2
TOOLS USED: Kandinsky v2, Cyber Sculpt
RENDER TIME: ~7 hours with Anti Aliasing
HARDWARE USED: Atari TT030 (MC68030, FPU68882, 32MHz) 8MB RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
A sundial on a pillar on a wavy plane with mountains in the background.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
I started off by making a simple pillar and putting a circular groove in the
top and a plate with the edges just in the groove.
I then designed the gnomon (the stick on the sundial) using Cyber Sculpt and
converted it to POV. It is just made of a few triangles. I also designed
the mountains in Cyber Sculpt, these are even simpler than the the gnomon.
I spent a little while finding the best position for the mountains.
I then designed the clock face along with the raised circle in the centre
in Kandinsky and fuzzed it slightly to give slightly rounded edges.
I then converted this to Targa format and used it as a POV height field
on top of the disc I put in earlier. I did not include this height field
file in the archive since it is 3MB in size.
I then made some adjustments and added textures to everything. I am particularly
pleased with the mountain texture, it is all made from inbuilt POV textures.

Kandinsky is Shareware vector graphic drawing software.

Cyber Sculpt is a very old 3D object designer, available now for about $US15.