TITLE: Bright Spark
NAME: Andrew Bowcock
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
EMAIL: andrew@bowcock.com
TOPIC: Slow Motion
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: spark.mpg
ZIPFILE: spark.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray for Windows 3.1g.watcom.win

TOOLS USED: 
    meg2encode (from www.mpeg.org/MSSG/), Paintshop Pro 6

CREATION TIME: 
    About 72 hours rendering

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD K6 450, 64 Mb

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 
    A Day in the Life of an electron

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: I'd like to thank the POV-Team, of course!


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    No specific viewing requirements.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 


I'm a new-comer to POV and I guess I'm not alone in thinking it's a great bit of
software.
I've created all original models for this animation, but have to admit to using
many standard textures as I was running out of time. Also, due to time
constraints in rendering, the lighting is fairly simple - could have done with
some area lights. I would also have liked to stretch the sequence out to around
2 minutes as the pace is too fast. Again, if I'd had more rendering time I
could have set the end_frame to, maybe, 2000.
I know I could have saved time by making the models less detailed, I went a bit
over the top with the detailing on the electronic components. Also, I ought to
get faster hardware!

For anyone wanting to recreate or modify, you'll have to create the "animation
within the animation" (frames 1-200 of "onscr.pov") first and save them as .bmp
files in the source folder (or somewhere else accesible).
All the frames (including titling) were created using POV, except for the final
still title screen.