TITLE: Cliff Hanger NAME: John VanSickle COUNTRY: US of A EMAIL: evilsnack@hotmail.com WEBPAGE: http://users4.50megs.com/enphilistor/irtc.htm TOPIC: Force of Nature COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. MPGFILE: cliff.mpg RENDERER USED: POV-Ray version 3.5. TOOLS USED: Text editor, CMPEG, pencils, paper. CREATION TIME: Pretty much the whole quarter. Final rendering was done on the 15th of October. VIEWING RECOMMENDATION: Full color, 24 frames per second. HARDWARE USED: K6-2 @ 300MHz, 96 Megs of RAM ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: Some scenes away from the Petrified Orchard Valley. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: I typed out a bunch of scene code, rendered the frames, and slapped them together with an MPEG compiler, just like I always do. I originally wanted the planet to be a black hole, but the tradeoff between quality and rendering speed would have leaned to heavily in favor of the latter; the gas giant renders more quickly, and seems less cliched. I also wanted to have part of the Main Sequence blasted away, but modelling a good-looking explosion was too troublesome within the time constraints. This anim seems to use a lot more subtitles than usual. If you have any 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).