TITLE: Moebius and truchet
NAME: Denis Chassaing
COUNTRY: france
EMAIL: dchassaing@nogentvern.faurecia.com
WEBPAGE: not yet !
TOPIC: Construction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: mobtru.mpg
RENDERER USED: 

    POV-Ray 3.1


TOOLS USED: 

    Pencil and paper, povray text editor
    TMPGEnc and bmp2avi


CREATION TIME: 

    About 50 hours. 

RENDER TIME:
    3 h 30


HARDWARE USED: 

    Athlon 900 MHz with 256Mb ram    


ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 


A long time ago
An Imperial Star Destroyer builds a worm hole to travel towards another galaxy
to conquer.
The worm hole is a Moebius strip assembled with Truchet tiles.
The robotic starfighters ensure the construction of the worm hole.
Once finished, the worm hole is redy on.
The first vessel which crosses it, immediatly travel towards the new galaxy


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 

    Window Media Player


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 


The basic element is the Truchet tile.
(Truc
het, Dominican priest who lived all along the century of Louis XIV)
It is composed of 2 quarters of torus.
This tile is assembled along a Moebius strip.
(It was discovered by A.F. Moebius, a german mathematician in 1858)
With a random rotation of 0 or 90 degrees one can create an infinity
of patterns.



