TITLE: A Day for Memories NAME: John VanSickle COUNTRY: US of A EMAIL: evilsnack@hotmail.com WEBPAGE: http://enphilistor.50megs.com/irtc.htm TOPIC: Water and Waves COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. MPGFILE: sb005.mpg RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.6 for Windows. TOOLS USED: Text editor, CMPEG, pencils, paper, and the LionSnake modeler CREATION TIME: I got started on this project as soon as the topic was announced. Final rendering was complete on 15 July 2006. VIEWING RECOMMENDATION: Full color, 24 frames per second. HARDWARE USED: Homebuilt Athlon XP 2400 (512Meg RAM) ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: The Master of the robots visits a lake near where he grew up. This is set prior to my January 2004 entry, in which the Master has one of his robots turn off his life support. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: The Master is the old model (same exported .INC file) that I used the last time he appeared. The landscape is a set of function-based height fields. Each HF takes a piece of the function, and each is scaled and translated to represent a 50 meter square section of the landscape. Those blocks which lie entirely outside of the camera view are not parsed, so the memory savings are enormous. If you have any other questions about things, e-mail me directly, or leave comments on the comments page (and be sure to put your e-mail address in the comments; sometimes the bot records the wrong address).