TITLE: PI in the Sky
NAME: Glenn Swonk
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: gswonk@tais.com
WEBPAGE: n/a
TOPIC: Physics and Math
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: glspi.jpg
ZIPFILE: glspi.zip
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.


