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Pellet Power (1/15/01)	Time Marches On (4/15/01)
For the IRTC competition Pursuit/Escape, I immediately thought of Pac-Man, and I'm not the only one. The animation was rendered for a smaller frame rate than it turned out that I could use, so it's 26 seconds long instead of 31.	For the IRTC competition Slow Motion, David Jones had the idea and together we pieced this together. It didn't do as well as we'd hoped, but we learned quite a bit from it.
Stills
Susan Board (6/28/00)	The Abandoned Road (2/29/00)	Glowing Spheres
Susan is a fun and highly addictive game for the Macintosh. Mac users can download it here. This is my version of the game board. It uses the standard includes for POV-Ray plus Shiro Nakayama's Checkers.inc file.	This was my first actual IRTC entry. I had attempted to enter before, but this one made it. I was playing with broken columns and developed my grasspatch.inc file for this image, then I was watching a special on the seven wonders of the anceint world, and realized that I needed a big bronze broken foot in the scene. So I used one from Poser, smoothed it out, played with the texture, and dropped it in.	Inspired by some posts on creative lighting techniques, and while working on my Cyclopedia entry for the looks_like statement, I came up with this image.
The Thing Under The Stairs	Misty Rocks	Castle
I toyed around with text adventures and I started to work on "The Thing Under The Stairs," which inspired this image, from the opening of the game.	I was playing with small heightfield editor and made this image.	I was in the middle of the everlasting battle against clutter in my apartment one Saturday afternoon while the Three Musketeers was on TV, I caught a glimpse of the screen and I think I saw this.
Cranes	Abstract #2	Ascent
I have long been facinated by origami, but I can only fold a series of amoeba's so I tried it with POV-Ray.	Computer Abstract images don't have to be pixelated blocky, or fractal. This was done is photoshop, but I would like to explore these images in POV-Ray	I used Poser 1 (when it was relatively new) and Photoshop to make this image. I really like the style I got with it, but i haven't gone back to experiment more with it.
Radiation
This was created shortly after Ascent. It is another Poser/Photoshop combo.