TITLE: Dancing Lights
NAME: Erik Shelley
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: shell_erik@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: www.erikshelley.com
TOPIC: Dancing
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: dlights.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray for Windows v3.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Perl, MIDI-Perl, Cakewalk, Dave's Targa Animator, TMPGEnc

CREATION TIME: 
    A couple days to create. About 1.5 hrs to render the frames.

HARDWARE USED: 
    1.73 GHz 1GB RAM

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 

Lights appear and rise with each note played on the piano. The brightness of the
lights and how long they glow approximate the perceived loudness of the notes.

VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 

Make sure you can hear the music

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 

I composed and recorded the piano piece using Cakewalk Home Studio sequencing
software and my Kurzweil PC2 keyboard. I saved the song in MIDI and WAV
formats. I wrote a Perl script and used the MIDI-Perl library to parse the MIDI
file and generate a simple POV file to be rendered. After rendering the frames
in POV-Ray I used Dave's Targa Animator to create an .AVI animation file.
Finally I used TMPGEnc to combine the .AVI and .WAV files into the final MPEG
with sound.