“Crystal Dove” by Prueitt
Title:
- Crystal Dove
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Company / Institution / Agency:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
Description:
This film was produced by a ray tracing program which models diffuse and specular reflection and refraction for transparent objects. The “glass” dove in the sequence is made up of 1,608 polygons. The images contain a number of spheres. Calculations were done on a Cray Computer with an average time of 44 sec/frame. Images were plotted on an 111 FR80.
Additional Contributors:
Computer graphics: Melvin L. Prueitt.
Dove design: Susi Prueitt.
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