EMAIL: wrigh-ma@ee.uwa.edu.au
NAME: Michael Wright
TOPIC: Physics & Math
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The Relativly Hot Superconductor
COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0 for Windows
TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro 4.12
RENDER TIME: 34 minutes
HARDWARE USED: 486 dx2/66

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

I just love Modern Physics because we know so very little about it. The
concept of a relatively high temperature superconductor realised in 1987
when materials were found that went superconductive above the temperature
of liquid nitrogen (around 77K).

My image is of a superconductor (the blackish slab at the bottom) supporting
a magnet in midair.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The image was created very simply (because I'm still new to povray) out of
a minimum number of primitives. The magnet is just a cylinder and the
superconductor is just a box. The liquid nitrogen canister is a cylinder-
torus combination. The grating on the ground is created with a while-loop
that generated lots of cylinders.

As I kept is simple the hardest bit was doing the frost from the liquid
nitrogen. I'm still not quite happy because I wanted more turbulence,
and coudn't make it happen.

I used PSP 4.12 for the image map on the liquid nitrogen canister.