EMAIL: phuyghe@leplae.be
NAME: Peter Huyghe
TOPIC: Toys
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Rubik Cube Animation
COUNTRY: Belgium
WEBPAGE: http://www.leplae.be/hp/
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.02
TOOLS USED: CMPEG
CREATION TIME: Final Render took approximately 10 hours
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 100 MHz
VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: Microsoft ActiveMovie works great
ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:
6 Rubik Cubes rotate. The center one changes into a nice pattern, 
then changes back to a complete cube. This animation can also loop.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:
I designed the cube and the scene with POV-Ray 3 for Windows.
Because I did not see how to do the accumulating rotations 
all from within POV-Ray, I wrote a program to generate 
all individual frames. So, I do not use the animation 
mechanism in POV-Ray. The frames were then rendered with 
POV-Ray 3.02 for DOS from within Windows NT Workstation 4.0.

The program RubikA.EXE generates all the POV files for the animation.
It also generates Rubi.BAT which can be used to render all these
source files.
The program (RubikA.EXE) can generate every desirable sequence of 
rotations. It uses the standard notation scheme. 
The sequences in this animation are: 
D' U L' R B' F D' U and U' D F' B R' L U' D
If you would like the source for the program (plain C), send 
me a message and tell me why you want it.