EMAIL:preacher@iftech.net
NAME:David Spake
TOPIC:Time
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED:Topas internal
TOOLS USED:Topas v5.1, Photoshop for background and textures
RENDER TIME:1hour 37 mins
HARDWARE USED:dx4/100, 24megs of ram


IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
About two weeks before I found out about the topic of this months contest (or that the contest 
was even back) this idea came to me.  I had just started to work on it and then I decided to see 
what was up a POV and there was the contest announcement.  I was really excited about the
"coincident".



I call it "Tears of Time"

I am not including the source files because they are in excess of 4 megs just for the model 
and object information.


Thank you for your consideration.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
The tear portions are spline spheres that I stretched and bent around... this took me much longer
than I anticipated.  I started by trying to use a generic sphere and the geometry would get all
screwy every time I started stretching them.  Then i created esentially a sphere by lathing a
spline polygon, and life got much easier.

The sundial took me a little while to model.  I wanted to get the etched look on top and not on
the sides of the face. I assigned different reflective properties to the top circle polygon and 
this produced a much finer looking face.  The part that casts a shadow was just a simple polygon
that I extruded and cut holes into.

The background I found in a royalty free cd I had around.