> I like it,

Thanks :)

> though the dice interpenetrate each other's surfaces...

I know-this was just a test to see how far the three dice keep moving
apparently the same way before cumulative errors completely disguise their
original common state, and what fashion their evolutions diverge in from
then on, so I decided to let the dice interact only with the ground, not
among themselves.

> What can your physics simulation handle?

Well, I wrote an INC-file with a macro to simulate the movement of rigid
bodies under generic force fields, which you have to define by creating
another macro in your scene, and can include interaction among the bodies.
I've rendered a few simulations in four scenes at different stages of the
macro's development (a spinning top, orbiting masses that roughly resemble
the Sun, the Earth and the Moon, a rolling disc, which I finally stuck with
a rod to make another spinnig top, and dice), but unfortunately none of
them-save this one of the dice-fits in the 1-megabyte limit for postings in
this groups, neither did I manage to compress them below the limit.
I see most animations posted in this group are MPEG format, so I wanted to
try it. After quite a while searching among the 3D-animation-related links
in POV-Ray's official page, though, I just found the test version of
MainVision, which inserts a prominent watermark throughout the animation,
and tried to compress my AVI simulations with it, but failed to reduce their
size any further than a tiny extent. Then I still guess I'm missing
something crucial about video compression, yet I've run out of ideas to try
:( so I'd appreciate any advice on the matter.

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