TITLE: The Glory Days
NAME: John VanSickle
COUNTRY: US of A
EMAIL: evilsnack@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: http://enphilistor.50megs.com
TOPIC: Sports
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: rusty028.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.6.1

TOOLS USED: 
    POV-Ray, pen & paper, CMPEG

CREATION TIME: 
    About six weeks

HARDWARE USED: 
    2GHz Celeron laptop & Athlon 2400 desktop

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 

Rusty used to be a track star.

VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 

24 frames per second

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.

New models for this round:
* The stadium
* Other models for ideas that were abandoned and aren't seen
  here

The audience in the stadium consists of four of the robot
designs you've seen in the series so far (Rusty, Boxer, Domo
and Joe), randomly chosen, colored, and positioned in the
stands.  Since there is room for thousands of robots in the
stands, I scripted the code so that robots which are
off-camera are not included in the scene, which saves me
many hundreds of megabytes of memory; as it was, memory
usage was often over 200MB, which my 192MB laptop did not
like very much.  I was glad to have my 512 MB Athlon box out 
of storage.

As those of you who have looked at the povray.binaries.
images group on the news.povray.org server have probably
guessed, I was running with a different idea, but scratched
it due to time contraints.  Blame Diablo II!

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


