TITLE: The Power Column
NAME: Lance Birch
COUNTRY: Australia
EMAIL: Lance_Birch@tpgi.com.au
WEBPAGE: http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/ambient/lance
TOPIC: Metamorphosis
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: lbmorph.mpg
ZIPFILE: lbmorph.zip
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

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 
    This is an animation of my Power Column which morphs
objects from one to another.

VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    Anything with hardware acceleration

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
:-)