TITLE: A Noble Adventure
NAME: John VanSickle
COUNTRY: US of A
EMAIL: evilsnack@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: http://users4.50megs.com/enphilistor/irtc.htm
TOPIC: Journey
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: advent.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray version 3.5.

TOOLS USED: 
    Text editor, CMPEG, pencils, paper.

CREATION TIME: 
    Pretty much the whole quarter. Final rendering was done on the
15th 
of January.
VIEWING RECOMMENDATION:  Full color, 24 frames per second.

HARDWARE USED: 
    K6-2 @ 300MHz, 96 Megs of RAM

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 
    Rusty looks forward to a brighter future.


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.

All of the models used in this entry are my own work.

David G. Potter was a fan of the Rusty series who passed on in June of
2001.  Under the pen name of Gharlane of Eddore, he was the Internet's
leading authority on science fiction.

The signs over the bookshelves use image_maps for the lettering.  To keep
the lettering from being aliased to death I gave the modeling code the
ability to anti-alias the texture, based on the distance to the camera.
This makes the signs legible under a greater variety of viewing
distances.

If you have any questions about things, e-mail me directly, or leave
comments on the comments page (and be sure to put your e-mail address in
the comments; sometimes the bot records the wrong address).

