EMAIL: estragon@cc.gatech.edu
NAME: Daniel A.K. Halsey
TOPIC: Metamorphosis
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: POV-RC5
COUNTRY: US
WEBPAGE: http://estragon.gt.ed.net/
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.01 for Windows
TOOLS USED: MPEG compile - cmpeg; JPEG conversion - Paint Shop Pro
CREATION TIME: Source - < 1 day; Render - 37m58s; MPEG compile - 103s
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 100, 48MB RAM

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:

This animation is a proposed logo for the POV-Ray Addicts RC-5 team.

It represents not only the use of computers normally devoted to ray-
tracing being being added to the RC-5 cracking effort, but also the hope
of many that the distrubuted computing effort will soon be turned from
key-cracking to a dirtributed ray-tracing application.

At the time of its submission to the competition, it has not yet been
submitted to the team leader.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

I thought it was pretty cool that members of the POV-Ray community had
organized a team for the distributed.net RC-5 cracking effort.  After a
few weeks, though, I thought it might be nice if we had a logo other than
the one from the POV-Ray website, and came up with the idea for this one,
which pseudo-morphs (fitting, I hope, the theme of the competition)
from the letters "P O V" to "R C {Roman 5}".

All the coding was done in POV for Windows's internal editor.  The basic
file took just under an hour to write, and a few hours of re-rendering and 
tweaking to make it look decent, loop well, and not retract the leg of the
"R" into the head.

The scene is pretty simple (it only contains 27 objects) and consists of
letters composed of cylinders, spheres, and torus segments, and a
rotating off-camera cylinder, to give the letters something to reflect.


I've done a few other (better) animations, which may be found on my website.

DAKH-23 Nov 1997