TITLE: Pendulums
NAME: Craig G. Smith
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: craig610@earthlink.net
TOPIC: Toys
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: csmobile.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray (Windows3.0)

TOOLS USED: 
    Ulead Media Studio Pro 5.02, Xing MPEG Encoder

CREATION TIME: 
    about 8 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 233 w/ MMX

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 
    Animation of the suspended ball mobile.


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    Microsoft Active Movie 2.0 (Direct Show).
Try looping it.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 
    7 sequences were
generated with POV-Ray; 5 for the number of balls moving from left
to right, and two sequences for the beginning and ending text.
For the acceleration of the balls, a parabollic function of clock
and rotation angle was used.

Ulead Media Studio Pro was used to copy and reverse the sequences for 
the final clip.  This could have been accomplished by copying and renaming
the sequences, either by hand or by writing a program.  It's just simple
with MSPro.  MSPro was also used to add the audio clicks.

The Xing Encoder was used to increase the compression ratio to allow the
clip to meet the 3 Meg file limit size.