EMAIL: Lance_Birch@tpgi.com.au
NAME: Lance Birch
TOPIC: Metamorphosis
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The Power Column
COUNTRY: Australia
WEBPAGE: http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/ambient/lance
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.02 for Windows
TOOLS USED: Photostyler
CREATION TIME: 660 hours
HARDWARE USED: Intel 486DX4-100 with 24 MB of RAM
VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: Anything with hardware acceleration
ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: This is an animation of my Power Column which morphs objects from one to another.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: Everything in this animation was hand coded with the exception of the 'key framed' sections of the morph for which I created a small program.  It took a while to get everything right.  First I made the basic layout and then of course wrote the code for the actual animation.  The morphing is made by loading different data files for the lathe positions (there are a total of 400).  The textures are morphed with code as you can see in the ZIP file.  I added the some extra frames to the start and end of the animation too (just a title screen and credits: created in Photostyler).  The data files for the animation are not included (they are *BIG* but I might post them on my site if they fit). Hope you like the animation.

P.S.  I'm 14 years old and this is my first big animation in POV-Ray (be kind :-)