TITLE: moonphas
NAME: franco bedeschi
COUNTRY: Italy
EMAIL: fbedeschi@tiscalinet.it
TOPIC: transformation
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: moonph.mpg
ZIPFILE: moonph.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.1 for windows

TOOLS USED: 
    dta,avi2mpeg,mgi photosuite

CREATION TIME: 
    building scene about 10 hours, rendering about 5 mins,
conversions and encoding about

HARDWARE USED: 
    celeron 466,128 mb ram, chipset intel810

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 
    moon is moon, but day by day (night by night)
it seems changing; one night, from my window, i saw all of her 28 days
and fixed my dream into my harddisk


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 

This is my first animation.
Initially concepted to explain moon phases to my childrens.
I used only the internal clock applied to a mini solar-system:
a fixed camera (the observer on the Earth) looking at a steady
Moon in the night sky, while the sun is running around the Moon.
(after Tolomeo and Cartesio, me!)
I translated their location in polar coord system, placed
a nice night view of my town in foreground and animated the Sun.
Povray rendered it, dta converted to avi and avi2mpeg1 encoded to mpeg1.
That's all