EMAIL: keyja@logica.com
NAME: Jay A. Key
TOPIC: Elements
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: A bunch of water molecules running about in a frenzy
COUNTRY: USA
RENDERER USED: Custom-modified version of POV 3.01
RENDER TIME: 2 hours
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 75
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
     The image depicts a large number of water molecules moving about in
random directions.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
     This image is a basically a test image for a modification that I
currently making to POVRay 3.01 to allow for the simulation of motion.
The scene file itself was generated by a small program written in C.
     The modifications to POVRay allow the simulation of motion, by
basically re-rendering each line a certain number of times, moving each
object in the scene by the appropriate amount, and then averaging the
lines.  Each object to be moved is assigned a motion vector, and the
amount to be moved for each step is determined by one of three simple
weighting algorithms.  For this image a quadratic formula was used
instead of a linear one -- this causes the image to be less photo-
realistic but the details in the objects are better observed.