TITLE: Liquid Evolution
NAME: Jason Smith
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: jps6860@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: http://www31.brinkster.com/gumballstudios/
TOPIC: Evolution
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: js_lqevo.mpg
ZIPFILE: js_lqevo.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    CMPEG, MS Paint

CREATION TIME: 
    ~5 day render

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 4 1.2GHZ, 258 MB ram

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 


 abstract and cliche
liquid metal evolving
 checkerboard below


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 


I had trouble coming up with a good idea for this round.  I started
playing around with a superquadratic and came up with this.

I took a superquad and animated its parameters to have it cycle though
different shapes.  I also translated the texture during the animation 
to add the rippling effect.  For the lighting I used 5 blue tinted area
lights to form a box around the whole scene, with an orange tinted 
light to create the shadows.

I did run into a few problems.  There wasn't a good way to morph between 
all the shapes I wanted to include.  Mainly between the pyramid and
the cube.  If you watch closely there is a noticeable jump when the cube 
forms.  There is also a small tear in the cylinder.  It's only a pixel
or two and only lasts for a second so it's not as noticeable.

I've included the pov files in the zip.