EMAIL: erik-melissa@mindspring.com
NAME: Erik Shelley
TOPIC: Robot
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Erik's Nanobots
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: 
RENDERER USED: Pov-Ray 3.1 for Windows
TOOLS USED: cmpeg
CREATION TIME: 20 days
HARDWARE USED: PII 366 Mhz 128MB RAM
VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: ActiveMovie for Windows 95/NT works well
ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 

This is my attempt to explore what could happen with the creation
of self-replication nanorobots. I found out after I started that 
this idea had already been tried in a previous round of the 
competition. This is my first entry into the competition.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:

This animation did not require any complicated techniques. I used
Pov-Ray 3.1 for Windows to do everything. The zip file contains 
all that is required to render the frames.

I used nested while-loops to create everything that was made of 
spheres (molecules). I used random numbers, the clock, and the sin() 
function to make the molecules move around.

I did some algebra to create an equation for moving the camera along 
a curve away from the monitor and down to the desk. That was probably 
the most complicated part of the entire animation.

When using cmpeg to create the mpg I was able to reduce the file size
by 10% from 4.36MB to 3.89MB by using -m1 -d1 but it took 90 minutes 
to create the file instead of 10 minutes.