EMAIL: jh@cfjh.de
NAME: Jürgen Hochwald
TOPIC: Escape
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Escape from Fractals World
COUNTRY: Germany
WEBPAGE: www.cfjh.de
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.5/Linux
TOOLS USED: - Povray 3.5 (rendering)
            - KMandel (selfwritten, fractal heightfields)
            - kedit (and brain, scene editing)
            - mpeg_encode and mpeg_play (animation creation and testing)
            - animate (selfwritten, image conversation and shifting)
            - xv (for single image viewing)

            external resources:
              - explode macro from Chris Colefax
              - keys bumpmap (monitors.inc) found on the internet

CREATION TIME: - designing: approx 200 h over thee months
               - render: 10 days
HARDWARE USED: Athlon 650
VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: renderd with 320x240 @ 25fps, no sound
ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: The fractal world is threatend by a solar impact.
The civilisations are escaping with an generationsship to search a new home.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: A year ago I had the first
idears to make a planetary and space jouney. I used povray 3.1 and had
problems with the camera movments, so I interrupted the project.
Later I saw thw current theme on the irtc homepage and reactivated the
development and modified some scenes to match to the theme. Also some parts 
from the Küspet execution are reused here. The development was verry time-
critical, while rendering the first final version, I was still modifying 
some parts.
This is my first bigger animation I've done with povray. All is done by brain
and a plain text editor.
After the contest I plan to continue the deveopment on then animation. 
I've concreate plans for some new scenes wich I havn't include due time and
file size problems. In the future I'll extend the anim and make more
details to the existing scenes.