EMAIL: Bernd.Unger@t-online.de
NAME: Bernd.Unger
TOPIC: Time
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Reflections 3.0 (PC)
RENDER TIME: 2 hour 30 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Pentium-100

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

The idea to render a clock for the topic time isn't very new, i know. But this
was the first thing to think on the theme of time. Later on during the work on
this picture in my spare time there were more ideas like a wheel of time or 
something like that, but i got to less time to render a more complicated
scene. I hope i will have enough at the next topic in this contest. 
So i called the picture yaclock ( yet another clock ;-)

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The textures used were part of the Reflections 3.0 package. Every
texture has got a underlying bump map. The background like under-
water or a bit like ice was a mistake i made during the construction of
a background. But i thought it looks quite good.

What to say about the clock. Its a CSG constructed body, the numbers are
made with a feature called 3d-font. Some parts are rotational bodies from
polygons which you can create in Reflections.

The images contains 5 light source, three local near the clock and two global
to illuminate the szene a bit. These light sources and the relfective background
increased the rendertime heavily from about 20 minutes to 2 hour 30 minutes at the resolution of
800x600 plus antialiasing.

Many thanks for the ideas and comments to sandra, ralf and alex, which mentioned the
contest more than once the last weeks so i hurry up to get this picture so far ready to
submit it today!