EMAIL: irtc.mail@povuser.org
NAME: Nimish Ajmani
TOPIC: Technology
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The Interplanetary Visit
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: www.povuser.org
RENDERER USED: Pov-Ray v3.6
TOOLS USED: (Windows) GCS Pro, Pov Ray, Pencil and Paper, Windows Movie Maker, TMPGEnc, Easy Graphic Converter 1.2. (mac) imovie HD
CREATION TIME: About the whole quarter
HARDWARE USED: Toshiba laptop and a Mac
VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: original size, in a dark room (try to avoid glare), full volume. (better version available at http://www.povuser.org/IRTC_home.html)
ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:

	The USS Starrider has to go to Valeria VII to pick up some interplanetary visitors in order to stregnthen interplanetary relationships.  The visitors are to represent the planet at Earth for the questioning which will allow them in to the Milky Way Federation.  On the side, various technology is shown. This technology is a transporter beam, tractor beam, flotation devices (the robots float), very high Artificial Intelligence, automatic doors, video communicators, artificial gravity, and a computer.  All high tech technology of the future.  This is considered my pilot episode.

Things to note while watching:

Ranking colors:

Captain    =Blue
Lieutenant =Yellow
Security   =Red
Visitor    =Orange

Species:

Earthling =long squarish one
Warmunian =one with point on the back
Valerian  =one with indented back

The one who is talking has his ranking band glowing.

Special thanks to the following people for devoting their time to puting voice onto the animation;

Alexaner Dillaire (bridge security guard, hall lieutenant, and First Officer)
Mr. Thorn (Computer)
Nimish Ajmani (Captain, Valerians)

Also, Star trek sounds are used.

I can not guarantee voices in all the animations, but I will guarantee the same robots.  They will definetely be there in the next three animations

Why Robots, you may ask.  Two reason.  One, they are easier to program then people.  And two, there is no lip sync involed or walking to program.  Robots work with splines that don't have too much banking.  Also, they fit in better with the theme "technology."  Imagine in the future when we can use robots to do our tasks and sit at home in our couches.  Heck, we do that today, with all those automatic vacumers.  


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:

I made the bridge, hallway, robots and starship first.  Then, the animations are mostly splines and translations and rotations. It is made in 96, 48, or 24 frame bundles.  I added the captions later on Windows Movie Maker. Also, I will continue the "to be continued" as soon as a suitable topic is mentioned.  I hope to make it the next round.

In the continuation, I hope to include a replicator room, light drive, and explain the artificial gravity.

I used imovie HD to compress this down to 8 megs.  It was originally 310.4 megs, so this was good for size, but iit didnt take away quality.

Sliding doors are made using frame_number.  Pov-ray is a cool animator.  Thanks to all my friends for help and encouragement.

(PS. Sorry for the quality.  My animation software isn't the best.  So If you know one better, please email me, thanks.)