EMAIL: geordi@netzservice.de
NAME: Christian Schulz
TOPIC: Time
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: PovRay 3.0beta
TOOLS USED: None
RENDER TIME: 8h 35m
HARDWARE USED: Pentium-100

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

The image shows the time machine from the film "Bill & Ted's Excellent
Adventure", which has just arrived in some desert-like place with some
old stones and broken columns - note that the image does NOT depict a
scene from the film.
In Germany, the film never got very popular, but I hope that in the US
more people will know the film and this form of a time machine.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

First of all, I have to say that I am not very good at modelling and
that I've never been in the US to have a look at a phone cell like
this - so I apologize if it doesn't look like one.
The cell itself is a simple CSG union of boxes and differences of
boxes with a metallic texture. The orange energy pattern at the bottom
of the cell is a rather simple pigment on a second object that covers
the solid phone cell. The "phone"-sign at the top is an image_map.
The floor is a height_field created from a TGA file.
The columns are CSG objects again. To give a rough look to the cap of
the cylinder I used CSG difference with a height_field which was
created with the plasma function from FRACTINT.
Same thing with the stone blocks: CSG difference of a simple box and
the same height_field that I used for the columns.
The dust cloud around the cell is a sphere with a spherical_mapped
halo in the colour of the sand.
Finally I added a sky_sphere which I took from skies.inc.