TITLE: SuperCube
NAME: Brian Hands
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: brian@handsb.freeserve.co.uk
WEBPAGE: N/A
TOPIC: Gadgets and Odd Devices
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: scube.mpg
ZIPFILE: scube.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray for Windows V3.1a

TOOLS USED: 
    BMP2AVI, Paint Shop Pro V5 and CMPEG

CREATION TIME: 
    12 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    120 MHz Pentium

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 

This animation reveals a net of a cube which folds up into a box and then
rotates
ultimately showing all the faces. Each face has a number corresponding to the
sequence found on dice. UK residents will be familiar with the design used for
the
four - it was Channel 4's original (and now no longer used) logo (Channel 4 is
the
UK's fourth terrestrial analogue broadcast TV station).

VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 

ActiveMovie for Windows 95/NT works but gets the frame rate wrong.
XingMPEG Player V3.20 works with the correct frame rate and allows the
animation
to repeat.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 

I created the frames using the standard animation support in Povray for
Windows. The animation is built up from 8 separate phases (although the first
and
last do no more than increase and decrease the intensity of the lights
illuminating
the scene). Progress of the animation was periodically checked using BMP2AVI
with
the final MPEG file being produced using CMPEG. Paint Shop Pro was used to
convert
the rendered .TGA files from a compressed to an un-compressed format - this
animation does not include any form of post processing.