TITLE: Transcendentia! NAME: John McIvor COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: mcivor@wolfenet.com TOPIC: Math and Physics COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: transcnd.jpg ZIPFILE: transcnd.zip RENDERER USED: POV 3.01 (unsupported pentium optimized version) WIN95 TOOLS USED: Qbasic RENDER TIME: about 4 hours HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133 DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I wanted to create a mathematical visualization, a physical view of a mathematical idea.... Basically I used two different types of objects; polyhedra and curves. The solid polyhedra are created entirely from triangles, using Qbasic to convert face and vertex data to POV code. (eg. pentagons are actually created using 3 triangles). This was required due to the fact that the 3 dimensional data that I used was slightly non-coplanar. The Dark purple truncated icosahedron (soccer ball) I calculated by hand, pencil / paper / chalkboard / clculator etc... The raw data for the other polyhedra that I started with came from the file polyhedra.zip from the SIMTEL archive (I could find no info on the actual authors of this). I calculated the curves with Qbasic (I have included the basic code in the ZIP file for my Image). Basically I would call it a toroidal helix, although this may not be strictly correct. The coloring for these is also done using a curve function!