I was introduced to POVRay at the beginning of the summer as part of  my
job. Basically, I was assigned to learn POV, teach it to my boss, and
produce some cool things along the way. So, two and a half months later
(plus a few weeks at school while I forgot to post this), here is the
animation and the poster I presented at my employer's annual retreat.

Both of them are very large, so they are at

http://filer.case.edu/ecj10/public_html

Not the greatest, but I wanted to share, since so many of you helped me
along the way.

Questions/comments welcome!
-OpalPlanet

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OpalPlanet wrote:
> I was introduced to POVRay at the beginning of the summer as part of  my
> job. Basically, I was assigned to learn POV, teach it to my boss, and
> produce some cool things along the way. So, two and a half months later
> (plus a few weeks at school while I forgot to post this), here is the
> animation and the poster I presented at my employer's annual retreat.
> 
> Both of them are very large, so they are at
> 
> http://filer.case.edu/ecj10/public_html
> 
> Not the greatest, but I wanted to share, since so many of you helped me
> along the way.
> 
> Questions/comments welcome!
> -OpalPlanet
> 


Thanks for sharing.  The still image is cool (and BIG). I suppose that's 
hard to avoid when you've got things of such different scales.

As for the anim, the first media player I tried choked for some reason, 
the second one half-choked, and the third was the charm: media player 
classic. I might just be low on memory.

Anyway I think it's effective and well done. :-) My only minor 
suggestion (I realize it's done) would have been about the suddenness of 
some of the turns.

Charles

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The still image is actually that big because the picture was printed out at
over 4 ft long... so the file is 20000 pixels across. If I get a chance,
I'll render a lower-resolution one that actually fits on a computer screen.
:-)

As for the turns - I spent the last couple of days before the presentation
just trying to fix the turn to Jupiter, until my boss told me "Just stop,
it's FINE!" (I think I was getting annoying at that point).

Thanks for the feedback!
OpPl

>
> Thanks for sharing.  The still image is cool (and BIG). I suppose that's
> hard to avoid when you've got things of such different scales.
>
> As for the anim, the first media player I tried choked for some reason,
> the second one half-choked, and the third was the charm: media player
> classic. I might just be low on memory.
>
> Anyway I think it's effective and well done. :-) My only minor
> suggestion (I realize it's done) would have been about the suddenness of
> some of the turns.
>
> Charles

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Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

I've off and on toyed with the idea of building some image (probably in
SVG--rasters would be too big) of the solar system with all the sizes
and distances *to scale*.

Of course, I'd be hard-pressed to do that and still have it be as
artistic as yours. :-)

-- 
William Tracy
afi### [at] gmailcom -- wtr### [at] calpolyedu

You know you've been raytracing too long when you seriously entertain
thoughts about learning C so you can improve POV-Ray without waiting for
the POV Team to do it.
    -- Taps a.k.a. Tapio Vocadlo

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"OpalPlanet" <ecs### [at] msncom> wrote in message 
news:web.4716d2608a818b3ac5d66b0c0@news.povray.org...
>I was introduced to POVRay at the beginning of the summer as part of  my
> job. Basically, I was assigned to learn POV, teach it to my boss, and
> produce some cool things along the way. So, two and a half months later
> (plus a few weeks at school while I forgot to post this), here is the
> animation and the poster I presented at my employer's annual retreat.
>
> Both of them are very large, so they are at
>
> http://filer.case.edu/ecj10/public_html
>
> Not the greatest, but I wanted to share, since so many of you helped me
> along the way.
>
> Questions/comments welcome!

     Thanks for sharing OP! Really admire the work that went into it.

       ~Steve~



> -OpalPlanet
>

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Thanks, William.
Making everything on the same scale would be a huge challenge and require
some creative camera work - The sun so dwarfs everything else around it.
Sounds like a fun project. The animation has sizes (execpt the sun) and
distances to scale, and you already loose the inner planets when you zoom
out.

Thanks again!
OpPl


Thanks again

William Tracy <wtr### [at] calpolyedu> wrote:
> Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
>
> I've off and on toyed with the idea of building some image (probably in
> SVG--rasters would be too big) of the solar system with all the sizes
> and distances *to scale*.
>
> Of course, I'd be hard-pressed to do that and still have it be as
> artistic as yours. :-)
>
> --
> William Tracy
> afi### [at] gmailcom -- wtr### [at] calpolyedu
>
> You know you've been raytracing too long when you seriously entertain
> thoughts about learning C so you can improve POV-Ray without waiting for
> the POV Team to do it.
>     -- Taps a.k.a. Tapio Vocadlo

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Thanks Steve! Now I'm goning to  have to find time to try my hand at one of
you
competitions...modelling something other than spheres!
-OpPl


"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
> "OpalPlanet" <ecs### [at] msncom> wrote in message
> news:web.4716d2608a818b3ac5d66b0c0@news.povray.org...
> >I was introduced to POVRay at the beginning of the summer as part of  my
> > job. Basically, I was assigned to learn POV, teach it to my boss, and
> > produce some cool things along the way. So, two and a half months later
> > (plus a few weeks at school while I forgot to post this), here is the
> > animation and the poster I presented at my employer's annual retreat.
> >
> > Both of them are very large, so they are at
> >
> > http://filer.case.edu/ecj10/public_html
> >
> > Not the greatest, but I wanted to share, since so many of you helped me
> > along the way.
> >
> > Questions/comments welcome!
>
>      Thanks for sharing OP! Really admire the work that went into it.
>
>        ~Steve~
>
>
>
> > -OpalPlanet
> >

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William Tracy nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/10/18 15:25:
> Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
> 
> I've off and on toyed with the idea of building some image (probably in
> SVG--rasters would be too big) of the solar system with all the sizes
> and distances *to scale*.
> 
> Of course, I'd be hard-pressed to do that and still have it be as
> artistic as yours. :-)
> 
I once built a scale model of the Solar system: it was about 4m LONG. The 
planets where enlarged 1000 times relative to the distances, and the Sun only 
100 times. At that scale, the Earth and Venus where represented by ordinary 
mercery pins, Mercury, Mars and Pluto where headless pins, and Jupiter was 9mm 
in diameter, Saturn was about 7mm. Had to scale back the Sun, otherwise, it 
would have overlaped over Venus's orbit!
It was an expo-science project, and peoples where EXTREMELY impressed by all 
that empty space... and got a better understanding of the dificulties posed by 
interplanetary travels, to say nothing about interstelars ones.

-- 
Alain
-------------------------------------------------
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind,
for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas Jefferson

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