I had hoped to enter the current animation round... but I really haven't 
got the energy to put together a decent animation.

So instead, here's something for the current stills round. Magnetism - a 
rather obvious interpretation of the topic "Opposites".

The picture is a rather abstract representation of a magnetic field, 
based on no research whatsoever so any science buffs feel free to tell 
me what's wrong with it. The cylinders are randomly placed in space and 
oriented based on the average of vectors to the north and south poles, 
weighted by the inverse square law (which I'm assuming magnetism obeys, 
I really haven't researched it at all).

Anyways, here's the code:

#declare north = <-1,1,1>;
#declare south = <1,-1,-1>;

#local rs = seed(23);
#local c = 0;
#while ( c < 50000 )

	#local pos = <rand(rs),rand(rs),rand(rs)>*6-3;
	#local toNorth = north - pos;
	#local toSouth = south - pos;
	#local fieldDir = toNorth/pow(vdot(toNorth,toNorth),1.5);
	#local fieldDir =
		fieldDir - toSouth/pow(vdot(toSouth,toSouth),1.5);
	#local fieldDir = vnormalize(fieldDir);
	
	cylinder { pos-fieldDir*.06, pos+fieldDir*.06, .003 }
			
	#local c = c+1;
#end

Enjoy!

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Tek
http://www.evilsuperbrain.com

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