TITLE: Erik's Nanobots
NAME: Erik Shelley
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: erik-melissa@mindspring.com
TOPIC: Robot
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: enanobot.mpg
ZIPFILE: enanobot.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Pov-Ray 3.1 for Windows

TOOLS USED: 
    cmpeg

CREATION TIME: 
    20 days

HARDWARE USED: 
    PII 366 Mhz 128MB RAM

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 


This is my attempt to explore what could happen with the creation
of self-replication nanorobots. I found out after I started that 
this idea had already been tried in a previous round of the 
competition. This is my first entry into the competition.


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    ActiveMovie for Windows 95/NT works well

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 


This animation did not require any complicated techniques. I used
Pov-Ray 3.1 for Windows to do everything. The zip file contains 
all that is required to render the frames.

I used nested while-loops to create everything that was made of 
spheres (molecules). I used random numbers, the clock, and the sin() 
function to make the molecules move around.

I did some algebra to create an equation for moving the camera along 
a curve away from the monitor and down to the desk. That was probably 
the most complicated part of the entire animation.

When using cmpeg to create the mpg I was able to reduce the file size
by 10 0.000000rom 4.36MB to 3.89MB by using -m1 -d1 but it took 90 minutes 
to create the file instead of 10 minutes.