SCC5: POVRay Short Code Contest #5 - The animation round!

[ Competition information ]


Congratulations to the winners of the 5th short code competition. It was a very close competition, the top 5 entries received almost 80% of the votes.

The entries are given below, click on the image to view the movie. The movies are provided as QuickTime with the H264 codec. It is difficult to provide a movie format that will supported by all hardware and OS combinations, but a free QuickTime movie player is available for Mac OS and MSWindows. The movies supplied should also be supported by current versions of VLC and MPLAYER.

All the movies shown here were created using the free cross-platform raytracer called POVRay. The scene file, also given with each entry, contains no more than 512 characters! More information on this competition can be found here including the results from earlier rounds [3] and [4]. And finally for addition amusement, some information on the Slashdot effect.


Top three voted entries.

First place
Rays
Jeff Reifel
ID: mpszaw   Size: 464 bytes

FPS: 10  (periodic)
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Second place
Nuke!!!
Tekno Frannansa
ID: vnijtm   Size: 510 bytes

FPS: 15  (nonperiodic)
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Third place
Fountain
Peterson Trethewey
ID: thbqad   Size: 510 bytes

FPS: 25  (periodic)
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Next highest voted entries in order. (Honourable mentions)

Whirlpool
Alex Kluchikov
ID: wsckip   Size: 489 bytes

FPS: 25  (nonperiodic)
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Contact with another dimension
Pete Lozano
ID: axxrfz   Size: 512 bytes

FPS: 15  (nonperiodic)
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Rainbow block ripple
Bill Pragnell
ID: ombpes   Size: 407 bytes

FPS: 25  (periodic)
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Lotus
Jeff Reifel
ID: lotzic   Size: 474 bytes

FPS: 10  (nonperiodic)
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Flower
Chassaing
ID: ukalsc   Size: 503 bytes

FPS: 15  (nonperiodic)
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The Bridge
Leroy
ID: yixavk   Size: 330 bytes

FPS: 25  (nonperiodic)
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Remaining entries in no particular order.

Lights
Tim Attwood
ID: cuogkf   Size: 418 bytes

FPS: 10  (nonperiodic)
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Time machine
Joel Yliluoma
ID: qwoaqw   Size: 469 bytes

FPS: 15  (periodic)
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Space: The Finite Frontier
Mike C. (A.K.A. Mike the Elder)
ID: xtweom   Size: 492 bytes

FPS: 15  (periodic)
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Root attractor
Paul Bourke
ID: acmkbd   Size: 485 bytes

FPS: 10  (nonperiodic)
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What's In YOUR Water?
Mike C. (A.K.A. Mike the Elder)
ID: gkorkv   Size: 454 bytes

FPS: 15  (periodic)
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Mobius Strip
Gary M Gerken
ID: eezfer   Size: 468 bytes

FPS: 25  (periodic)
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Plasma flowers
Alex Kluchikov
ID: iyxhrs   Size: 482 bytes

FPS: 25  (periodic)
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Through the Menger sponge
Mikihiko Nishiara
ID: qcdavh   Size: 512 bytes

FPS: 6  (periodic)
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Media Flower
Christian Froeschlin
ID: wapntq   Size: 359 bytes

FPS: 30  (periodic)
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Moebius
Chassaing
ID: depjok   Size: 475 bytes

FPS: 15  (nonperiodic)
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Pipes
Paolo Gibellini
ID: nmvofc   Size: 475 bytes

FPS: 15  (nonperiodic)
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Bumblebee
Paolo Gibellini
ID: jdqhnc   Size: 457 bytes

FPS: 15  (periodic)
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Eclipsing...
zeroin23
ID: foxukk   Size: 509 bytes

FPS: 2  (nonperiodic)
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Glowing 5
Matthew Goulet
ID: arzxdv   Size: 424 bytes

FPS: 25  (periodic)
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Colorcube
Mikael Pohjola
ID: qsvluk   Size: 402 bytes

FPS: 10  (periodic)
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Newton's Donuts
Matthew Goulet
ID: ogzdyq   Size: 485 bytes

FPS: 30  (periodic)
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Mandel fractal zoom.
Greg M. Johnson
ID: igajsr   Size: 335 bytes

FPS: 15  (nonperiodic)
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Breathing lava
Paul Bourke
ID: nzwehz   Size: 466 bytes

FPS: 10  (periodic)
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