EMAIL:                    dbott@eastsoundsuites.com
NAME:                     Darin Bottner
TOPIC:                    Dance
COPYRIGHT:                I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.

TITLE:                    GOING COO COO
COUNTRY:                  USA
WEBPAGE:                  none at this time

RENDERER USED:            POV-Ray for Windows v3.6
TOOLS USED:               MGI VideoWave III
CREATION TIME:            40 days (off and on)
HARDWARE USED:            Dell Win Me - Intel Pentium 4 CPU 
VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS:  Windows Media Player

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:

As the clock spins to 12:00 midnight, you glide across the room to the coo coo.
When the clock stops at 12:00 the doors open and out comes the little
dancer. He spins to the side and does a little foot shuffle. The dancer
who is not paying attention trips over a flower and falls to the counter top.
He looks up to see the falling flower that has displaced him.  

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:

I have been teaching myself POV off and on over the last year and a half.
I would first like to thank all the incredible tutorial web pages (Lohmuller,
Colefax, the list goes on..... many many thanks). Second, I know I could have
added much more detail, like a desk instead of a counter top. And a mirror and 
paintings. Ahhh--the excuses of life, work, children, the wife........
TIME -> just don't have a lot of it any more.

I made my walls, floors and counter top out of boxes. The clock and dancer is all CSG's.
My dancer is animated 10 frames per step. (Rotating his legs, arms and head).
Long-term plan is to make a macro to fully automate with a data file???.
I generated about 1000 frames for this short. My code is not optimized and pretty 
chopped up. But if anyone wants to look at it -- email me. The main program calls about
15 Inc files which produces the the room, coo-coo clock and dancer.