EMAIL: english@spiritone.com NAME: Josh English TOPIC: Pursuit/Escape COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Pellet Power COUNTRY: USA WEBPAGE: http://www.spiritone.com/~english RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1g TOOLS USED: POV-Ray 3.1g, Mega-POV 0.6, cmpeg CREATION TIME: The render took about 3 hours HARDWARE USED: Design and testing was done on a G3 Power PC and an iMac The final render was done on an IBM 600x laptop running W2k VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: Any should do ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: Pac Man, Blinky, and the Power Pellet. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: The idea hit me about thiry seconds after I read the topic for this round. I spent a week on the maze and then two more getting the ghosts to work. Then three weeks of timing the animation. The animation was rendering fine on my two Macintosh systems, but the ghosts point of view shot was crashing the program on my Macs, so I had to use a friends W2k laptop for the rendering and the mpeg encoding. The two biggest challenges of this image were the ghosts skirts, and the camera's fly by of the maze. As with most of my work, I am happy with one, but not the other.