EMAIL:  H Beaver1@aol.com
NAME:  Christopher Hawkins
TOPIC:  Time
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED:  Ray Dream Designer 4
TOOLS USED:  Graphic Convertor 2.2
RENDER TIME:  est. 2 hours and 25 minutes
HARDWARE USED:  Macintosh PowerPC

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
	I wanted to make something abstract that still related to time so I
started brainstorming until I figured out a basis of exactly what I wanted to
do.  I got my major idea for the picture from the Salvador Dali painting. 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
	The first thing that I wanted to accomplish was to create the clocks. 
I decided that they would be the hardest part of the picture and also the
entire picture would be based off of my clocks.  To make the clocks, I first
made a gold torus and added a go ld flat cylinder to the back.  Then I added a
inscription on the back, itŐs just a silver cursive font.  It reads: ŇTo Julia,
with love for thee.  Love, CarlosÓ.  I then added a white face to the front of
the torus.  Next I added each of the twelve number to the front.  Then I
created the hands of the clock in the Free Form editor.  I made a hand in one
of the cross sections and extruded it to make the minute hand.  Then I just
shortened a copy to make the hour hand.  All the while I was positioning every
thing. 
	Next I just started fooling around with different predefined shapes. 
Positioning them in different places and adding more clocks.  Then I applied
different shaders to the objects.  And if you are wondering, the red cylinder
is a wire shader.  Next I add ed a cube and applied a transparent refracting
shader with bump maps that look line rain drops.  That is how I made the water. 
I did download the shader off of America Online but customized it to my liking. 
I then added a flat cube under the water so th at it would have a type of
ground.  I purposely left the edge of the water visible. 
	Finally I added 3 spot lights with low angles.  One red, one green, and
one grey.  They are positioned differently pointing near the center. 
	Next I a made a text in a glowing fire texture that I made that
indicates the title and added it to the picture using Graphic Convertor.  Then
I added my name to the upper left hand corner of the picture.  The picture
looks MUCH better in thousands of co lors, but is OK in 256.