TITLE: Transcendentia!

NAME: John McIvor
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: mcivor@wolfenet.com
TOPIC: Math and Physics
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: transcnd.jpg
ZIPFILE: transcnd.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV 3.01 (unsupported pentium optimized version) WIN95

TOOLS USED: 
    Qbasic

RENDER TIME: 
    about 4 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 133


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


I wanted to create a mathematical visualization, a physical view of
a mathematical idea....

Basically I used two different types of objects; polyhedra and curves.
The solid polyhedra are created entirely from triangles, using Qbasic to
convert face and vertex data to POV code. (eg. pentagons are actually
created using 3 triangles).  This was required due to the fact that
the 3 dimensional data that I used was slightly non-coplanar.
The Dark purple truncated icosahedron (soccer ball) I calculated by
hand, pencil / paper / chalkboard / clculator etc...
The raw data for the other polyhedra that I started with came from
the file polyhedra.zip from the SIMTEL archive (I could find no info on
the actual authors of this).

I calculated the curves with Qbasic (I have included the basic code in
the ZIP file for my Image). Basically I would call it a toroidal helix,
although this may not be strictly correct. The coloring for these is also
done using a curve function!

