TITLE: The Drip
NAME: Frank David
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: fjdavid@msn.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.members.tripod.com/FrankDavid
TOPIC: Slow Motion
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: drip.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    MegaPOV 0.6A

TOOLS USED: 
    Paintshop Pro 6, CMPEG, TMPGEnc, ProDesktop (3d cad), and STL2POV

CREATION TIME: 
    2 Months

HARDWARE USED: 
    400 MHz Pentium

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 


This animation zooms in to see a faucet dripping and then ends with a slow
motion splash on the ground


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    Windows Media Player for 95/NT works well


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 


I created the images using MegaPOV and then assembled segments using cmpeg, and
used TMPGEnc to splice them together into the final mpeg.

The faucet was drawn in a cad program which was then exported as a STL file and
then converted to POV-file-format for version 3.0 using STL2POV. The drip is an
isosurface using the glob function and bounded by a sphere to keep only the
drip part of the function. The wetspot is the sphere function with 3d noise
added to give the realistic look. The splash is an isosurface made using a
granite pigment as the function and growing the sphere to enlarge the splash
area. The splash is not quite what I wanted, but I ran out of time. The slash
sequence for one splash was taking over 10 hours to render about 48 frames on a
400 MHz machine. However, the look is pretty close to what I was wanting. The
brick texture on the building was the brick.inc file by Jeff Lee from his
tutorial on his web page.