TITLE: Bow and arrow
NAME: Maarten Hofman
COUNTRY: USA (Originally the Netherlands)
EMAIL: maarten_hofman@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: http://people.zeelandnet.nl/whhofman/jen
TOPIC: Speed
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: bow.mpg
ZIPFILE: bow.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 

* Adobe Photoshop 6.0 (create the title image)
* WinZip (to create the zip file)
* CMPEG (to create the MPEG file)


CREATION TIME: 
    30 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium IV 1.8 GHz


ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 

With speed I always get a mental image of an arrow flying. I therefore 
decided
to make an archery range, with two towers that look at the progress of the
arrow. In the end I focus on what happened to the target, after the arrow 
has
been fired.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 

I like programming all the objects myself in the POVRAY scene language, 
which I
did again here. My main issue was with the smoke coming from the arrow: At
first I did some experiments with media, which failed. I then tried to use
a third party include file, which was even worse. So I went back to the
media, and managed to make some smoke appear. In the beginning it looks
quite good, but I ran out of time making it look pretty in the end.

For some reason I prefer sharp shadows, despite them being less realistic. I
guess it is just the way I raytrace.