TITLE: moonphas NAME: franco bedeschi COUNTRY: Italy EMAIL: fbedeschi@tiscalinet.it TOPIC: transformation COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. MPGFILE: moonph.mpg ZIPFILE: moonph.zip RENDERER USED: povray 3.1 for windows TOOLS USED: dta,avi2mpeg,mgi photosuite CREATION TIME: building scene about 10 hours, rendering about 5 mins, conversions and encoding about HARDWARE USED: celeron 466,128 mb ram, chipset intel810 ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: moon is moon, but day by day (night by night) it seems changing; one night, from my window, i saw all of her 28 days and fixed my dream into my harddisk VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: This is my first animation. Initially concepted to explain moon phases to my childrens. I used only the internal clock applied to a mini solar-system: a fixed camera (the observer on the Earth) looking at a steady Moon in the night sky, while the sun is running around the Moon. (after Tolomeo and Cartesio, me!) I translated their location in polar coord system, placed a nice night view of my town in foreground and animated the Sun. Povray rendered it, dta converted to avi and avi2mpeg1 encoded to mpeg1. That's all