Hi!

Yesterday I wanted to show a friend how povray works. So I started with
reflective sphere (red) over checkered ground (green-black). He was very
impressed, so I made a simple loop and arranged 16 spheres on a circle.
Then I put a bigger chrome sphere in the middle, changed the texture of
the plane to T_Stone13 and added a sky_sphere{S_Cloud1}. He was even
more impressed! Then he said (meant as joke): "Ok, now let them jump
around the chrome sphere". I said: "OK, I'll try. And so I did. He was
going mad, and said: "OK, every second sphere shall be golden, and if
the red spheres are on the ground, the gold shall be in air and
otherwise round". So I did.

The result is quite amusing, so I'm posting it here. Have fun! Oh, and
the pov source is less than 900 bytes.


(There's a bigger version with sound added at
http://home.arcor.de/mad_onion/jumpballs.avi - 910 KiB)


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MfG

Manuel Kasten

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Attachments:
Download 'jumpballs-small.avi.dat' (252 KB)

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It's always fun to make your friends go WOW!

> The result is quite amusing, so I'm posting it here. Have fun! Oh, and
> the pov source is less than 900 bytes.
The animation looks nice, the red balls bounce very realistic while the
golden balls seem to slide/hang a bit at the floor? Or is it just me?
I like the chrome sphere! ;)

-Peter

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> The animation looks nice, the red balls bounce very realistic while
> the golden balls seem to slide/hang a bit at the floor? Or is it just
> me?

I just looked at the source pictures and the jumping is definetly
identical. Then I looked carefully at the (looping) video and saw it, too.
I looked in my video editing program and noticed, that the very last frame
is missing! That's causing the effect...

> I like the chrome sphere! ;)

Thanks

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Manuel Kasten

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