EMAIL: vansickl@erols.com NAME: John VanSickle TOPIC: Life COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Robotany WEBPAGE: http://www.erols.com/vansickl/povray.htm COUNTRY: US of A RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1g for Win9x. TOOLS USED: Text editor, CMPEG, pencils, paper HARDWARE USED: K6-2 @ 300MHz, 32 Megs of RAM CREATION TIME: Each frame took about 20 minutes to render, so I suppose it took about two weeks to render all of the frames. The design time, including time spent on discarded ideas, ran to about 300 hours. VIEWING RECOMMENDATION: Full color, 24 frames per second. ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: A simple mix-up causes trouble in the lab. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: I typed out a bunch of scene code, rendered the frames, and slapped them together with an MPEG compiler, just like I always do. The source has not been included because of recent plagiarism of other work by POV artists. The species on the left side of the Splice-O-Matic are genuine food crops. The top four on the right are species from which certain recreational drugs are derived, and the very last one is a fish. Specifically, the crops are the tomato, pepper, potato, peanut, and cucumber; on the right side are marijuana, peyote cactus, rye ergot, opium poppy, and the red piranha. This is the longest animation I've done, coming in at 1488 frames, for 62 seconds of animation; this is a full ten seconds longer than my longest prior effort, "Death to Rusty!" which I entered in January of 1999. I used better quality settings on the MPEG compression this time around, and still came away with a shorter file (by about 200K). If you have any other questions about things, e-mail me directly, or leave comments on the comments page.