TITLE: Dances with Droids
NAME: Matt Giwer
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: jull43@ij.net
WEBPAGE: http://www.giwersworld.org/mgiwer/
TOPIC: Robots
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION
MPGFILE: rob.mpg
ZIPFILE: rob.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.1g

TOOLS USED: 
    cmpeg for animation, Photoshop for poster

CREATION TIME: 
    8h 15m

HARDWARE USED: 
    PII/333, 128M, Win98

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 
    Most all movie and TV robots are highly
anthropomorphized so lets push it to the max. I've gotten the 
smiles I was targetting from friends. Sugarplums can't dance 
either but Disney got away with it. 

     Correct, no collision avoidance is. I'd like to make them 
bounce off each other but can't have everything when breeding an 
animation based upon math. 

     A little "Danger, Will Robinson" arm waving didn't seem to 
hurt. And the heads of all cute bots rotate 360. 

     Bot motion is sine/cosine curves with different amplitudes, 
basic geom and trig stuff. So is the leaping, abs(sin(y*clock)), 
as is the bulletcam pan. A bulletcam can, but hasn't, done this 
pan yet. Anyone for a chorus of The Bulletcam Can? Say Bulletcam 
five times in a mirror and it appears. 

     Not much more I can think of to say about this as a 
description as it all in the included code. Up front in the .POV 
file is the .INI file to be split out to duplicate this. 


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    n/a but x2 isn't that bad