EMAIL: JefferyMitchell@worldnet.att.net
NAME: Jeffery T. Mitchell
TOPIC: Gadgets
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TITLE: A Virtual Tour of RHIC
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/WWW/software/central/display/luxanim.html
RENDERER USED: Pov-Ray 3.1
TOOLS USED: Adobe PhotoDeluxe
CREATION TIME: About 24 hours rendering time
HARDWARE USED: 266 MHz Gateway Pentium II, 64 MB RAM
VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: Sit back and enjoy.
ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: This is the first half of a virtual tour of the
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory, which
is a new physics accelerator that will begin operation later in 1999.
This traces the acceleration of a single gold ion from its origin in a
set of tandem accelerators, to its point of collision within the collider.
Also modeled are the 4 experiments that will be taking data at the collider
later this year.  The second half of the movie (not shown) zooms in on each
of these experiments.  The entire movie is about 1.5 minutes long and weighs
in at 13 MB.  You can see it by going to
http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/WWW/software/central/display/rhictour.mpg

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:
The entire animation was created using Pov-Ray 3.1 within its editor.
The clock variable was used heavily here with the movie
divided into sequences for a modular approach to its construction
for easy modification.  The title page was created by editing the Pov-Ray 
output file within Adobe PhotoDeluxe.