IMAGE:  mkscienc.jpg (800x600)
by Matt Kruse (mkruse@saunix.sau.edu)

For the May-June raytracing competition: "Science"

Since I have quite a bit to do and not a lot of time to do it, I couldn't 
spend much time doing an image for this month.  So, I decided to do 
something simple but original.  I figured we'd see enough molecules :).

I opened up my old physics book and look through it for an interesting 
problem that I could render in a small amount of time.  I came up with 
this one, since it was a short problem and wouldnt be too hard to model.

I typed the problem in Word in a 100-point font, then screen-captured it 
using Hijack Pro.  I used this as a height_field.  The spring consists of 
a few thousand spheres.  I wrote a quick perl script to do this for me.  
Other than that, it's very basic.