EMAIL:		nok@post8.tele.dk

NAME:			Nils Olav Kilen

TOPIC:		Metamorphosis

COPYRIGHT: 		I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT

TITLE:		Visitor

COUNTRY:		Denmark

WEBPAGE:		None at the moment, but working on it...

RENDERER USED:	POV-RAY 3.0

TOOLS USED:		cmpeg (for MPEG-1 packing) with options -d1 and -m1 for high 			quality.

CREATION TIME:	Planning: 2h Rendering: 3h 30m, MPEG-1 encoding: 2h 45m 			(approximately)

HARDWARE USED:	AMD 486 133 MHz with 52 MB of RAM and Tseng ET6000 graphics 			accellerator.

VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS:	I suggest vmpeg.exe for DOS or vmpegwin.exe / 					vmpegwing.exe for Windows 3.11/95/NT.

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:	The fourth dimension has always intrigued me. If a four-				dimensional object 'falls' through three-dimensional space, 				a 3D-'slice' of it will show up in our world. This object, 				made with the powerful 'julia'-object in povray 3.0, does 				exactly that. Rotating and changing color as it visits out 				3D world. (Changing color? So this is - strictly speaking - 				a 5D object, but who cares?) This was all inspired by the 				fractals in the sample scenes accompanying povray. The 				final product looks a bit like a lump of silly putty 				constantly changing shape and size under the influence from 				rotational forces. Or maybe the sweet stuff used in candy-				making?

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: I used sine functions to alter the 				color and rotation of the fractal object. The 'slice' was 				done by changing one of the slice vector components. The 				frames was rendered with clock values from 0 to 1, but I 				thought, after vieving a test rendering, that it would be 				nice to have the object come out of 'thin air' and 				vanishing again, so I put in an extra frame with a clock 				value of 1.5, resulting in a frame withoout any sign of the 				object. Then I put this extra frame in a couple of 				instances at the beginning and at the end of the .INI 				sequence before encoding the frames with cmpeg.