TITLE: Tornado Farm
NAME: Kevin Lynn
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: klynn@telefish.net
WEBPAGE: http://www.Flavorplex.com
TOPIC: Force of Nature
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: tornadof.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Aladdin 4D

TOOLS USED: 
    MainActor

HARDWARE USED: 
    1.4 GHz Athlon-based PC

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 


A local TV news team captures a tornado touching down in a rural area.

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DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 


<A HREF="http://www.novadesign.com">Aladdin 4D</A> has a couple of unusual
features that came in handy here. One is a particle emitter called Fountains. 
Another is heirarchical path-based animation. Instead of the now ubiquitous
key-frame approach, A4d allows you to assign polygons (or fountains, or other
paths) to follow and be otherwise constrained by a path.  Both of these
features were used to make the vortex.

The rest of the drawing is polygon models, with some procedural textures and a
few bitmap textures.