Universal Time

Member : JuuG

Image description
Imagine. They build a telescope, new technology, incredibly powerful, and discover a huge clock hanging in space. Gravity is pouring out from the clock's centre, apparently anchoring it in position. Maybe the gravity also powers it. But that's only the first clock, they find more. It seems the clocks are everywhere in the universe, and they're in perfect time with each other. - Or not! This image appealed very strongly to me though I guess space-scenes aren't totally original. But please no one tell me gravity can't go outwards - it can in POV-Ray, I definitely looked it up in the help file.

Description of how this image was created
The background is a sky-sphere with black/blue bozo overlaid with a sparse leopard pattern in white. The pointy stars are exactly that, pointy stars in CSG. The clock is also nearly all plain CSG (the worm drive in the centre is f_helix1 - see POV-Ray include file Functions.inc). The galaxy is thank you to Chris Colefax for sharing his excellent and well documented Galaxy.inc file which can be found at http://www.geocities.com/ccolefax/galaxy.html

General statistics
No of ratings	:	15
Min. overall rating	:	25 (7 / 7 / 11)
Max. overall rating	:	50 (15 / 20 / 15)
Sum of rating	:	613 / 900
Date uploaded	:	2009-01-06 13:49:30

Specific details Note: The maximum value below is misleading as the voting system has changed. If the member votes for all the entries and has created one him/herself, there is an automatic 20/20/20 score added to the value (This encourages all members who enter to vote).
Rating type	:	Min : Max : Sum : Out of
Artistic	:	7 : 20 : 204 : 300
Concept	:	7 : 20 : 203 : 300
Technical	:	10 : 20 : 206 : 300
Overall	:	25 : 60 : 613 : 900

Comments by members when rating this image

1.   25-02-2009 Space scenes are good, this image works well. Only possible flaw in the image is the "rock?" weights seem a little smooth - but who am I to say what material they are? (perhaps cast lead?) I do like the textures of the rest of the clock - it looks great - brand new - but great. 2.   23-02-2009 original concept and well done. 3.   18-02-2009 Nice work. Very good cast-iron texture. A little bit too much ambient on all the clock's materials (only shows on some displays though, depending on calibrarion); the shadows of the hands could be a bit softer - and I'd expect the cast-iron cage to cast *some* shadows. Reflectivity of the glass sphere seems to be >1. 4.   15-02-2009 Nice dynamic mechanism.