I watched it and thought it was nice.

Then I read the blub and thought about it.

Then I watched again.  And again.  And again.

You are an absolute master of the animated effect!

Thank you for posting this wonderful animation!

I look forward to the next instalment.



Tim Nikias wrote:
> Just wanted to share my latest achievement.
> 
> So, I've set myself to rework some of the scenes of my IRTC entry. The
> deadline prohibited long delays. Effects like the one you're about to
> witness require dozens of renderings and tests to get it just right: not too
> much effect, but not too subtle either. Finding bugs along the way
> (referring to today's post of "Bug?", by me) doesn't help much either, as
> you need to find a workaround...
> 
> Anyways, what's happening here is rather simple: an animated spherical blob
> with center at the camera. Trigonometry helps locating the plasma's location
> in relation to the sphere and map a few additional blob-components to
> distort the surface. Rays hitting the untouched blob will pass through, but
> where the surface isn't perpendicular to the ray, we get refraction.
> Tweaking the power of the blobs, their size, and the ior requires a little
> patience, but who would work with POV-Ray if he had none of that? :-)
> 
> Regards,
> Tim
>

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