TITLE: Robotany
NAME: John VanSickle
COUNTRY: US of A
EMAIL: vansickl@erols.com
WEBPAGE: http://www.erols.com/vansickl/povray.htm
TOPIC: Life
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: robotany.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1g for Win9x.

TOOLS USED: 
    Text editor, CMPEG, pencils, paper

CREATION TIME: 
    Each frame took about 20 minutes to render, so I
suppose it took about two weeks to render all of the frames.  The
design time, including time spent on discarded ideas, ran to about
300 hours.
VIEWING RECOMMENDATION:  Full color, 24 frames per second.

HARDWARE USED: 
    K6-2 @ 300MHz, 32 Megs of RAM

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 
    A simple mix-up causes trouble in the lab.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 


I typed out a bunch of scene code, rendered the frames, and slapped
them together with an MPEG compiler, just like I always do.

The source has not been included because of recent plagiarism of
other work by POV artists.

The species on the left side of the Splice-O-Matic are genuine food
crops.  The top four on the right are species from which certain
recreational drugs are derived, and the very last one is a fish. 
Specifically, the crops are the tomato, pepper, potato, peanut, and
cucumber; on the right side are marijuana, peyote cactus, rye ergot,
opium poppy, and the red piranha.

This is the longest animation I've done, coming in at 1488 frames,
for 62 seconds of animation; this is a full ten seconds longer than
my longest prior effort, "Death to Rusty!" which I entered in January
of 1999.  I used better quality settings on the MPEG compression this
time around, and still came away with a shorter file (by about 200K).

If you have any other questions about things, e-mail me directly, or
leave comments on the comments page.

