EMAIL:  m1m@wow.com

NAME: MaryAnn Mandell

TOPIC: About Time

COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.

RENDERER USED: Povray 2.2

TOOLS USED: Moray, Pioneer, Glview and 3dto3d.

RENDER TIME: 

HARDWARE USED: Pentium 100  PC

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
	
	The image depicts a large sundial, a trophy, surrounded by a body of water out of which small land areas arise.   Overhead  is a gradient sky with a moon.  Each element in the scene references perceptions of time.  Because time is not absolute but dimensional, the references are also dimensional.
	The sundial is recorded time  The globe at the base indicate time zones and the passage of time.   All the spheres allude to the cyclical nature of time. 	Water is a common metaphor for the passage of time because of its fluidity with all its eddies and vortexes.  Time is tidal. Time is “choppy”.   Waves of all types are associated with the measurement of time.
	Other suggestions of time are also indicated.  Reflections suggest the transitory nature of time. They also indicate memories of time past as well as dreams to future time.  Geologic time is represented by small land areas - eons of time.   The large shadow of the sundial indicates the grip that time may seem to have.   The pointer on the sundial and the moon, which is also a reference to lunar time, lead to the realization that time is different in space. 
	Violet, the main sky color, is often associated with creativity and red with immediacy.   The use of these colors shows the intrusion of the here and now into the process of creativity when time suspends and seems not to exist. 
	
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

	Inspiration came when I began looking through some archives of brochures and postcards relating to Miami’s centennial. http://www.library.miami.edu/archives/promo/pro.html.  There I found a wonderful poster of a sundial and it started me thinking. Then I did some research on the web about sundials. http:www.sundials.co.uk/index.htm has lots of links. There were some great images and I studied them as to how to model them and I learned a lot about them.
	I used Pioneer to do some sketches and work out some of the details.   Glview was used to convert to raw and 3dto3d to convert raw to Moray. Although the sundial was originally modeled in Pioneer, I remodeled it in Moray.  The numbers were done with Glview and were imported into Moray.  The land areas were done with Pioneer.  The moon and all textures were done in Moray.
	Don’t spend a lot of time <g> trying to figure out if my sundial is accurate.  It is not.  It was not meant to be.  Some artistic license had to be taken and after all its only an image of time.  MaryAnn