TITLE: That Which we call Rock and Roll By any Other Vision Would Sound Just asSweet

NAME: Alexander Van Brunt
COUNTRY: Minnesota
EMAIL: AlexIsland@aol.com
TOPIC: Creatures
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: rockroll.mpg
ZIPFILE: rockroll.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Pov-Ray 3.0

TOOLS USED: 
    Cmpeg, Paint to make Text, and a TI-83 Graffing calculator

CREATION TIME: 
    about 300 hours of work.

HARDWARE USED: 
    233 K-6

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 
    This is one way of viewing the songs and bands that
impacted the early and mid development of rock and roll. Some of the objects or
creatures are very subtle, others are obvius. The whole animantion goes in
aproximate chronological order. Some things are not in exact order. A lot of
emphasis was put into details, but if you too close at some of the things you
see you may see things tht were not intended to be there. The crickets got rock
and roll going so the cricket landing on the rock got it going. The cricket was
made to be very simple, just like the original band. Then of course just as the
got going they died, but not after almost diing earlier like when the band was
having disputes. Later you see a picture with a blue island on it. This
represents Elvis_s Blue Hawaii. It actually looks a lot like the island of
Hawaii. Then the creature goes sufing on  board with the American colors on it.
This is the Beach Boys, but they were missing something in this case waves. As
the creature comes out it gets starteled by the arival of a beatle (The
Beatles), much like how they stunned America. Notice that around this time
Elvis_s symbol disapears, dies. The cannon ball is from a line in Bob Dylin_s
Blowin in the wind. I beleve the line is when the cannon balls stop flying.
Then the camera return to the beatle were it gets a new coloring, representing
the the Beatles transition starting with Sgt. Pepper. The backround has
Staberry Feilds Forever. The the Beatles faded away when Lennin died. Then time
goes back to Lucy in the Sky With Dimonds with celophane flowers of yellow and
green towering over our heads and marmolade skies. After a pause Jefferson
Airplane comes over head. When the camera comes back a strange door is there
representing the Doors. Going threw the door to a new world is representitive
of Break on Threw. On the other side the apple and the serpant are from the
garden of eden which is a strech from Iron Butterfly_s In A-Gadda-Da-Vida. To
clear things up a metalic butterfly flies by. Then the scene changes to what is
sopposed to be a appartment, from Rolling Stone_s Get Off My Cloud. A pink
creature representing Pink Floyd which gets off a cloud. Then The Rolling
Stones come back again with there mouth symbol and yellow pills, from Mama_s
Little Helper, in the corner. Then in the new scene there is Hotel California.
Then Jimmy Hendrix_s Purple Haze with the purple ground fog. The camera then
pans to a Stairway to Heaven. Finally a metalic airship for Led Zepplin. The
title is an adaption from Shakspeare_s Romeo and Juliet with the line That
which we call a rose By any other name would smell jst as sweet.

VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    View it at least once before reading description. Try
and figure out the theme. It looks great when viewed at the full screen
setting. It may take a few times threw to see everything. Let your eyes go
free. 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 
    The hills were parabolas. The
waves were just a bunch of bumps averaged and moving in different dirrections.
The creature was a blob. The flower pedals were two clipped spheres. The jet
turbulance was done with a bunch of sphere that moved out and random
velocities. The door transition was done by using an image map of  the garden
of eden scene fit to match the door and animated. The snake was a bunch of
clipped torusis with a reflective crackle texture. The apple was another blob.
The squished Pink Floyd was done by rotating it and scaling it. The mouth was a
torus with a little modification on it_s eqation. The tong was also a torus
with a scalop wave normal. The Zepplin was done with about 2000 smooth
triangles where the normal of each point on the same face was at the same
place. The positions were done by rotating stuff. Since my POV was starting to
act strange when the credits were made I just hand copied the last 192 frames
from 8 original frames. To make the skies I used a sky sphere that came with
POV Ray 3.0




