EMAIL: evilsnack@hotmail.com
NAME: John VanSickle
TOPIC: Force of Nature
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Cliff Hanger
WEBPAGE:  http://users4.50megs.com/enphilistor/irtc.htm
COUNTRY:  US of A
RENDERER USED:  POV-Ray version 3.5.
TOOLS USED:  Text editor, CMPEG, pencils, paper.
HARDWARE USED:  K6-2 @ 300MHz, 96 Megs of RAM
CREATION TIME:  Pretty much the whole quarter.  Final rendering was done on the 15th
of October.
VIEWING RECOMMENDATION:  Full color, 24 frames per second.
ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:  Some scenes away from the Petrified Orchard Valley.

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.

I originally wanted the planet to be a black hole, but the tradeoff between quality
and rendering speed would have leaned to heavily in favor of the latter; the gas
giant renders more quickly, and seems less cliched.

I also wanted to have part of the Main Sequence blasted away, but modelling a
good-looking explosion was too troublesome within the time constraints.

This anim seems to use a lot more subtitles than usual.

If you have any questions about things, e-mail me directly, or leave comments on the
comments page (and be sure to put your e-mail address in the comments; sometimes the
bot records the wrong address).