TITLE: Moebius and truchet NAME: Denis Chassaing COUNTRY: france EMAIL: dchassaing@nogentvern.faurecia.com WEBPAGE: not yet ! TOPIC: Construction COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. MPGFILE: mobtru.mpg RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1 TOOLS USED: Pencil and paper, povray text editor TMPGEnc and bmp2avi CREATION TIME: About 50 hours. RENDER TIME: 3 h 30 HARDWARE USED: Athlon 900 MHz with 256Mb ram ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: A long time ago An Imperial Star Destroyer builds a worm hole to travel towards another galaxy to conquer. The worm hole is a Moebius strip assembled with Truchet tiles. The robotic starfighters ensure the construction of the worm hole. Once finished, the worm hole is redy on. The first vessel which crosses it, immediatly travel towards the new galaxy VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: Window Media Player DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: The basic element is the Truchet tile. (Truc het, Dominican priest who lived all along the century of Louis XIV) It is composed of 2 quarters of torus. This tile is assembled along a Moebius strip. (It was discovered by A.F. Moebius, a german mathematician in 1858) With a random rotation of 0 or 90 degrees one can create an infinity of patterns.