EMAIL: pm@usa.net
NAME: Mauro Pierluigi
TOPIC: Night
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: A clock in a museum
COUNTRY: Italy
WEBPAGE: -
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.02 for Windows 95
TOOLS USED: PhotoShop for converting and adding the signature
RENDER TIME: 22 minutes 31 seconds
HARDWARE USED: PC AMD K6 233MHz, 64 Mb Ram

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

01:20 am, an old museum with an old clock inside and a spotlight pointing at it, nothing else than the silence and the reverbering tic-toc of the clock.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

This is my first image created in POV-Ray excluding extruded logos and words, that I usually need to do for work.

First of all I created a white cylinder where I wrote the roman numbers and all the points, I used a routine for locating the little points every x degrees. Then i added other cylinders, torus, spheres to create the golden structure of the clock. 

The glass bell was created using a blob with only one cylinder in it, duplicated and used in difference with the original one, then I gave a clear glass material to it and scaled to fit perfectly on the scene.

The base where the clock is located was simply created with union and difference with torus and cylinder objects, then duplicated 4 times and deformed a little.

Other than that there is an half tube and a plane to create some background, ambient light, reflections and thing like that.

In the beginning I just gave basic colors to all the objects to save time during the test renderings, then in the end I choose all the materials and applied them to the objects. 

The image can get better adding some particulars like a mark plaque on the golden base or some words in old style directly in the white parts of the clock. Maybe putting all the things in a big sphere with some yellow-brown texture will help to eliminate the reflections when they are too black.