TITLE: The Journey of a General
NAME: Brent Blankenship
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: autocad2pov@povray.co.uk
WEBPAGE: autocad2pov.povray.co.uk
TOPIC: Journey
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: general.mpg
ZIPFILE: general.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.5, pgn2anim.exe (written by me), AutoCAD for camera
splines

CREATION TIME: 
    Only God knows

HARDWARE USED: 
    2 P4 1.7GHz

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 
    I couldn't get permission to use a copyrighted soundtrack,
which made it so much more interesting.  Nonetheless, it's a story of a war
general's journey through his war, yet the cycle keeps repeating.  Note:  This
animation was well under way before the start of any recent well-publicized
military action.

VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    none

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 
    A lot of hand-editing. I wrote a
little ditty to convert a pgn (chess game) file to a collection of splines to
control the movement of the pieces.  Other than that, it was just a lot of
tweaking by hand to get the camera angles that would show the action the best
and fit the  missing  soundtrack.  Oh well...