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Title	:	Homo sapiens temporis
Name	:	Denis CHASSAING
Country	:	France
Email	:	############################
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Topic	:	The Time Machine (H.G. Wells) (July)
Copyright	:	Agreed - 2010-07-18 14:46:25
JPG file	:	pw-1279460407-Temporis.jpg
Renderer Used	:	POVRay 3.6
Tools used	:	POV-SDL, PoseRay, Poser, The Gimp for title and compression
Render Time	:	35 mn
Hardware Used	:	HP XW 4300 XP ; Pentium 4 ; 3.40 GHz

Image description

In the street, there are :
- An old car. It is the materialist version of the past time. This obsolete model is worn away by time.I have a memory of my grandparents' car where I was a child.
- A time machine, a telescope. The more one looks at far, the more one looks at the past of the universe. Or his own origins are seen.
- The moon which measures the time (one owes him the months and the weeks). it is the concept of time measure but also one of the origins of humanity
- A transparent face, turned towards the future, it is the human spirit turned towards its destiny
- Another transparent smaller face (inside the spirit), turned towards the past. This is an experience, its history, its emotional course which composes its intuition.
- A man admiring his future.
- A woman carrying the future.

Look at the sky, it is your past which carries your present and which is the base of your future, the machine to explore time, it is you!
By the thought you can be extracted from the present.
Using your past to modify your future.
And of your present to manufacture the memories of your future.

About this image, I wrote a poem in french, but I don't be able to translate.

Temps sidérant

Seule ombre criante dans le silence des noires espaces infinis,
Dans cette matière encore absente, jouant de ma triste solitude,
C'est dans l'immensité temporelle que j’étends ma lassitude,
Ou l'absence d'éternité est l'ultime espoir d'un destin fini.

Deux éléments divaguant sur une même trajectoire de rencontre,
Moi, devenus solide capturé, perdu dans ton champ de gravitation,
Toi, corps liquide, courbe et elliptique au centre de mes passions,
Attiré avec célérité par une promesse de finir tout contre.

Frottant ton atmosphère, je me plonge dans l'origine de mes troubles,
Voluptueux contact, glissant dans le rêve d'une d'étoile double,
Étreintes lactées dans tes bras spiralés devenus pour moi une enceinte.

Combien de jours devrons-nous attendre dans l'éclat de ce temps ?
Dans cet univers neuf, moi par bonheur, ne m'enfuis pas pour autant,
L'année en toi, de ton corps puisera le futur, terre enceinte.

Description of how this image was created
With a little of time

General statistics
No of ratings	:	10
Min. overall rating	:	30 (10 / 10 / 10)
Max. overall rating	:	43 (15 / 12 / 16)
Sum of rating	:	411 / 600
Date uploaded	:	2010-07-18 14:40:07

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Concept

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Overall

411

600

Comments by members when rating this image

1.	28-08-2010	Cool concept, really trippy and thought-provoking. That said, the render itself reminds me of something from the 1990s (like really old Gilles Tran style). Some radiosity would really liven up this shot; the current extremely hard lighting is a bit distracting.
2.	20-08-2010	[SMcA] Composition and colours are very good.
3.	19-08-2010	[ThomdeG] There is a kind of surreal feeling about this image that I find appealing. Maybe some of the textures could have a bit more consistence (normals) to give them a rough/smooth feeling and thus give more contrast to the different materials.
4.	18-08-2010	al the scenes is right, but may be too symbolic for me As a consequence, it is hard to me to distinguish where is the time machine

Homo sapiens temporis