EMAIL: brian@handsb.freeserve.co.uk
NAME: Brian Hands
TOPIC: Gadgets and strange devices
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Globe
COUNTRY: UK
WEBPAGE: N/A
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.1a
TOOLS USED: BMP2AVI, AVI2MPG1 and Excel
CREATION TIME: 21 days (~30 hours to render)
HARDWARE USED: 120 MHz Pentium 
VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: Xing MPEG player
ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:

This animation shows the construction, and then the destruction, of a strange
metallic globe.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:

I created the frames using the standard animation support in Povray for Windows.
The animation comprises 12 seperate sections, the length of each depending
depending upon what is happening in each sequence - when the globe rotates it does so
at a constant rate of 1.5° per frame, objects fall at a constant rate and the globe
fills and melts at a constant volume per frame.

The quality of the animation was monitored using BMP2AVI. The final MPG animation 
being produced by AVI2MPG1 (for some reason CMPEG always introduced some frames
upside down and/or blank in this animation). The animation that has been produced
runs at 30 fps but looks better if it can be run at 15 - 20 fps.