EMAIL: bcooper761@aol.com
NAME: Paul Vaughan
TOPIC: Inner Workings
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Well, Come to Hell
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: none yet

RENDERER USED: Povray 3.1 g
TOOLS USED: Psp5 for Poster resize and conversion
                           Psp 5 for Animated Gifs for quick preview of sections
                           Bend.inc (Chris Colefax) 
                           Cmpeg10  for Mpeg creation
                           HyMpeg to view all frames on clunky 486
CREATION TIME: 6 weeks
HARDWARE USED: 66 MHz 486 for Povray frame creation
                                   33 MHz 486 for Povray work-up  
                                   Friend's Pentium III to view along the way

VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: Something faster then 200 MHz to view @ 25 frames/sec

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:
        I have been reading a lot about Jungian psychology lately and couldn't get my mind away from the
thought that as we become more adept at examining and controlling the inner workings of things natural
and man made around us, we are severely lacking the equivalent growth in understanding of the inner
workings of our minds and spirit. This animation is my feeble attempt to show the inner workings of
our spirit (or soul) that guides the direction of our efforts to control and bend nature to our will. In particular,
it represents the idea of Yin Yang or what we normally think of as "good and bad" or in other words the
values we use to decide in what direction our scientific efforts should be directed.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:
       All frames are straight from Povray. I didn't use Pov animation control because I didn't know ahead
of time what kind of frame spacing I would need at various sections of the animation. I started with a
400x400 size and quickly discovered the Mpeg was going to be way to large ... so resized existing frames
to 320x320 and continued Povrays at that size ... however, I discovered that tga's from Psp5.0 and those from
Povray used together created upside down frames for the new ones ... so had to load and save all new
frames before including in animation. Anyway, it was fun and a learning experience even on my 486's.
     Tree of knowledge and fractal pool are Fractint gifs.
     Skeleton was freebie off the web, bent with bend.inc.