http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/scorpius/povray/3puzzles.mpg

Here is a ray-traced animation of my favorite scene. You can get a good
look at each puzzle as the view rotates a full 360 degrees. This one has a
total of 400 frames and -- because of all the reflection and soft
shadows -- took 5 hours and 30 minutes on a 450 MHz Pentium II. It was
compressed with mpeg2encode 1.2 and is around 2MB.

Let me know what you think.

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> 
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/scorpius/povray/3puzzles.mpg
> 
> Here is a ray-traced animation of my favorite scene. You can get a good
> look at each puzzle as the view rotates a full 360 degrees. This one has a
> total of 400 frames and -- because of all the reflection and soft
> shadows -- took 5 hours and 30 minutes on a 450 MHz Pentium II. It was
> compressed with mpeg2encode 1.2 and is around 2MB.
> 
> Let me know what you think.
> 

Bravo!!!

Very realistic.  I like how you captured the semi-gloss textures of the
puzzles and I like the tiled floor testure, perfect.

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I like it! Esecially the textures. I can see that the floor-texture is one
of these Archimedean (?) regular patterns, but how did you code it? Using an
image-map?

Simen.

>Let me know what you think.
>

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Very nice & very realistic. Excellent job.

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"Anthony C. D'Agostino" <sco### [at] spamEcsicom> wrote in message
news:38c6d713$1@news.povray.org...
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/scorpius/povray/3puzzles.mpg
>
> Here is a ray-traced animation of my favorite scene. You can get a good
> look at each puzzle as the view rotates a full 360 degrees. This one has a
> total of 400 frames and -- because of all the reflection and soft
> shadows -- took 5 hours and 30 minutes on a 450 MHz Pentium II. It was
> compressed with mpeg2encode 1.2 and is around 2MB.
>
> Let me know what you think.
>
> --
> Anthony C. D'Agostino - BMRT and POVRay Galleries
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/scorpius
>
>
>
>

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In article <38c6d713$1@news.povray.org>, Anthony C. D'Agostino
<sco### [at] spamEcsicom> wrote:

> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/scorpius/povray/3puzzles.mpg

Extremely well done, I truely like the smoothness of everything, your
objects, the camera movements, no flickering whatsoever whenever...

Anton
  http://people.a2000.nl/araves/

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Thanks Anton!  I'm glad you like it.  Too bad Media player doesn't loop
properly -- it skips a frame at the end.

I think I remember seeing your excellent lego images in the graphdev (or
povray) forum a few years ago.  Was that you?

By the way, I see that you live in the Netherlands.  Here are my latest
images created with blender (a program from the Netherlands):
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/scorpius/torusknot2.jpg
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/scorpius/torusknot.jpg


> > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/scorpius/povray/3puzzles.mpg
>
> Extremely well done, I truely like the smoothness of everything, your
> objects, the camera movements, no flickering whatsoever whenever...

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In article <391f1cc0@news.povray.org>, Anthony C. D'Agostino
<sco### [at] spamEcsicom> wrote:

> Thanks Anton!  I'm glad you like it.  Too bad Media player doesn't loop
> properly -- it skips a frame at the end.

Which program did you use to convert whatever output you chose from
POV-Ray to converts into the smooth .mpg-movies you have...?

> I think I remember seeing your excellent lego images in the graphdev (or
> povray) forum a few years ago.  Was that you?

It may have been me, yes... :-) I've been doing Lego images a long time
now and have even released the libraries I use for creating my images.
If you like you can go and take a look at:

  http://people.a2000.nl/araves/

> By the way, I see that you live in the Netherlands.  Here are my latest
> images created with blender (a program from the Netherlands):
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/scorpius/torusknot2.jpg
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/scorpius/torusknot.jpg

I've been meaning to take a look at Blender for some time now, but
unfortunately they don't support Apple Macintoshes, the computer that I
use...

With the kindest of greetings,
  Anton

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> Which program did you use to convert whatever output you chose from
> POV-Ray to converts into the smooth .mpg-movies you have...?

I use mpeg2encode v1.2 to go from png to mpeg.  I played with the
'bit_rate' to get good quality.

You can get it at ftp.mpeg.org/pub/mpeg/mssg
or with PNG support here:
http://www.buckosoft.com/gallery/tools/mpeg2

It comes with the source code. It might compile on your Mac, but I am not
sure.  Try it.

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In article <392d8835@news.povray.org>, Anthony C. D'Agostino
<sco### [at] spamEcsicom> wrote:

> > Which program did you use to convert whatever output you chose from
> > POV-Ray to converts into the smooth .mpg-movies you have...?
> 
> I use mpeg2encode v1.2 to go from png to mpeg.  I played with the
> 'bit_rate' to get good quality.
> 
> You can get it at ftp.mpeg.org/pub/mpeg/mssg
> or with PNG support here:
> http://www.buckosoft.com/gallery/tools/mpeg2
> 
> It comes with the source code. It might compile on your Mac, but I am not
> sure.  Try it.

I'll take a look at things, thank you for pointing me to this address!
  Anton

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