EMAIL: fighome@flash.net
NAME: Jim Figiel
TOPIC: Metamorphosis
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT
TITLE: Definition
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: http://www.flash.net/~fighome
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.02
TOOLS USED: povray, cmpeg
CREATION TIME: about 5 hours
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 90

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: This animation morphs the definition of the word Metamorphosis
                       into the actual word.
                       

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:

The idea for the sequence was driven by the fact that
everyone asked me what the definition of the Metamorposis was.  I learned
about the contest on the 2nd of January so I did not have much time to pull it
together.  This caused me to use simple, predefined objects in the scene.
I created the frames using the standard animation support in Povray for
Windows.  The entire animation generated 900 frames, however, not all of
them were used in the final animation.  The frames that were used are in
the file input.txt that cmpeg used to create the movie.  Otherwise all I
did was to generate all of the frames and run them through cmpeg.

Originaly the sequence had the text color changing and a checkerd floor but
these elements made reading the words difficult and were removed.