This is my first animation posted here (IIRC).

Tek suggested that I should animate this shape:

http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/31187/

- and so I did.

I used some quadrivariate NURBS functions to
deform a cube formed by many smaller cubes built
from meshes, cylinders and spheres.

A quadrivariate function takes 4 arguments. In
this animation time is used as the 4th argument:
U, V, W, T

By doing it this way, I only had to provide some
"key-frames" (8 for this animations). The script
then "interpolates" the shape smoothly between
these "frames".

Thanks to Ingo for tipping me about the TMPGEnc
MPEG encoder.


Tor Olav

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