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How to create GIF's by POV-Ray?

I created a tiny crash course in which I show "How to make GIF's by POV-Ray" (pptx, ~1.8MB). You should see that as an introduction to that topic. There are several very good tutorials on the web, so you can learn by that. I prefer the tutorial of F. Lohmueller (Useful Links). If you got any questions, please do not hold back and contact me. Thank you!

UPDATE (2011/12/15): new version of "How to make GIF's by POV-Ray" (pptx, ~16MB)

Why?

A big problem in teaching physics is the high dependency of (frequently occurring) physical models. Here, model means a construct of thinking, a theory, witch makes it possible to understand how things in the world work. Such a model concentrates on essential facts.
Very often, you cannot understand working physical systems without using suitable models for explaining various phenomena (e.g. physics of atoms and quanta, physic of optics). In order to detect and get rid of these (possibly) appearing problems and misunderstandings, good teaching materials, that give pupil a proper concept of physics, are needed. Drawings and figures are an appropriate way to underline some aspects of physical concepts too; but in fact, in some cases, like 3-dimensional problems or explanations concerning chronological sequences, a nice animation can explain things better and more intuitively.... (more)

Click here for detailed information. (PDF-file)

GIF-Animation

Please click the pictures to see the animation (GIF). Click the symbol under "Description" to see explanations and further information. You can save everything by right-clicking on the picture and choosing "Save Target As". (Tutorial: POV-Ray code ---> animation)

GIF	POV-Ray code	Description
	example (from "How to make GIF's by POV-Ray")
	spinning (1st-iterate-stepped) fractal with moving ball (just another example)
	pentagons are needed
	elastic collision (1-dimensional)
	elastic collision (2-dimensional)
	Introduction to Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry ("2-dimensional elastic collision" with changed parameters)
	magic ball: "guess the velocity"
	magic ball: "solution"
	"magic" golfball
	angular momentum
	bottom velocity don't change much
	ideal point of a tennis hit
	bottom velocity is 0 after hit
N= 1 2 3 4 10	normal modes of "wall-spring-mass-...-spring-wall"-systems Select number of atoms from the dropdown-box on the left.

Useful include files

Here you can find useful include files, that I've created. Some of them are needed for my POV-Ray-files. (!) Please see the file itself for further information.