TITLE: Let there be light
NAME: Matt Giwer
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: jull43@tampabay.rr.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.giwersworld.org/artiv/ & artii/ & artiii/
TOPIC: evolution
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: ev2.mpg
ZIPFILE: ev2.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.1g and 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    gimp, mpeg_encode
RENDER TIME:        

HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon 1800XP, 256M RAM, linux 2.4.18-3 kernel
         Celeron 400, 64M, linux 2.4.18-3 kernel
         PII 333, 128M, linux 2.4.18-3 kernel
VIEWING:        mplayer and quicktime work, windows media player some
         versions have trouble, some will not work at all some just
         do not give the correct playing time.

        I have had comments on the this section saying both that I write too
much and too little. There is no pleasing everyone.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

        Some themes of evolution. An irreverent explanation of why god
created the universe. A little biblical day thing. The evolution of 8 balls.
Appearance on land, multiplying. 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

        I have been criticized for saying both to much and to little in this
section. I am striving for "just right" so as to have a collection of all
possible criticisms of this section. 

        Generic information on size limited animations at <a
href="http://www.giwersworld.org/artiv/mpeg.phtml">which has some guidelines
for minimizing the file size.</a> 

        If you can't steal from the best who can you steal from? A little
bible, a little blasphemy and a lot of 2001. 

        Starfield method. In previous animations I have used an image map of
hue scattered noise. It looks realistic as is but in animations the stars
flicker. That is fine for a night sky on earth but sucks for the de rigour
outer space scenes. This one has the smallest size of spheres which will not
flicker, Smaller does flicker even though these are fixed size spheres.
There appears no way to do it accurately in Povray. It is included in the
zip file. If anyone knows a better way please post it. 





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        To the children, a reminder.

<quote>
  Etiquette

   This describes the intentions of the competition and what we hope to
   gain from it.

    c. The competition is not about winning. You do not have to be a
       professional, or even any good! 
</quote>

        I assure everyone, I am no damn good.