TITLE: Escape from Fractals World
NAME: J_rgen Hochwald
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: jh@cfjh.de
WEBPAGE: www.cfjh.de
TOPIC: Escape
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: fly3.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.5/Linux

TOOLS USED: 
    - Povray 3.5 (rendering)
            - KMandel (selfwritten, fractal heightfields)
            - kedit (and brain, scene editing)
            - mpeg_encode and mpeg_play (animation creation and testing)
            - animate (selfwritten, image conversation and shifting)
            - xv (for single image viewing)

            external resources:
              - explode macro from Chris Colefax
              - keys bumpmap (monitors.inc) found on the internet


CREATION TIME: 
    - designing approx 200 h over thee months
               - render: 10 days

HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon 650

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 
    The fractal world is threatend by a solar impact.
The civilisations are escaping with an generationsship to search a new home.


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    renderd with 320x240 @ 25fps, no sound

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 
    A year ago I had the first
idears to make a planetary and space jouney. I used povray 3.1 and had
problems with the camera movments, so I interrupted the project.
Later I saw thw current theme on the irtc homepage and reactivated the
development and modified some scenes to match to the theme. Also some parts 
from the K_spet execution are reused here. The development was verry time-
critical, while rendering the first final version, I was still modifying 
some parts.
This is my first bigger animation I've done with povray. All is done by brain
and a plain text editor.
After the contest I plan to continue the deveopment on then animation. 
I've concreate plans for some new scenes wich I havn't include due time and
file size problems. In the future I'll extend the anim and make more
details to the existing scenes.