EMAIL: fbedeschi@tiscalinet.it
NAME: franco bedeschi
TOPIC: transformation
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: moonphas
COUNTRY: Italy
WEBPAGE:
RENDERER USED: povray 3.1 for windows
TOOLS USED: dta,avi2mpeg,mgi photosuite
CREATION TIME: building scene about 10 hours, rendering about 5 mins,
conversions and encoding about
HARDWARE USED: celeron 466,128 mb ram, chipset intel810
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ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: moon is moon, but day by day (night by night)
it seems changing; one night, from my window, i saw all of her 28 days
and fixed my dream into my harddisk

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:
This is my first animation.
Initially concepted to explain moon phases to my childrens.
I used only the internal clock applied to a mini solar-system:
a fixed camera (the observer on the Earth) looking at a steady
Moon in the night sky, while the sun is running around the Moon.
(after Tolomeo and Cartesio, me!)
I translated their location in polar coord system, placed
a nice night view of my town in foreground and animated the Sun.
Povray rendered it, dta converted to avi and avi2mpeg1 encoded to mpeg1.
That's all