EMAIL: gswonk@tais.com
NAME: Glenn Swonk
TOPIC: Physics and Math
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: PI in the Sky
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: n/a
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0
TOOLS USED: rhino and 3ds2pov
RENDER TIME: 0 hours 10 minutes
HARDWARE USED: Pentium-200

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

An "infinite" spiral with the digits of PI.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

I found a program that computes PI to N digits
and created a file of 5000 digits. I then created
an awk file which generated objects for each digit
in the stream of digits.

Note: In reality, I had to play some tricks to get
the digits to converge quickly at the end since
the view of the cylinder has a hole in the end.