Arrow of Time

You were condemned to the Arrow of Time, many, many years ago. Oh yes, at first you laughed. It seemed so easy, to leisurely watch the hands turn round and round, winding down your time until, as you knew, they would stop, aligned towards the iron gate, which would then open to let you free.

But Time is a cruel master as you soon discovered. Seconds, Minutes, Hours, and even Days, were speeding happily round and round, endlessly round and round. But the Months were so slow! And the Years! Or the Lustrums! You could watch them carefully, oh so carefully. They did not seem to move. Were they broken…? You tried to ask the Keepers. They would not answer. You tried to climb the wall, but there was nothing to see, nothing to escape to. You tried to push the hands, but they were frozen.

And slowly you forgot about your crime. Gradually, you forgot about the world outside, as the world forgot also about you. You became obsessed with the Arrow of Time.

And so, Time winds slowly down, but you do not remember why anymore.

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The Arrow of Time clock and most of the props have been modelled in Silo2, with the exception of the metal drums which come from Poser. The prisoner, based on the Apollo Maximus character, has been posed in Poser7 and exported to POV-Ray with FlyerX’s Poseray.

Chris B’s Blockwall macro was used to build the prison’s wall.

A diffuse scattering media and radiosity were used in this final render.