TITLE: _view_of_a_garden
NAME: _Rodrigo_Correia
COUNTRY: Portugal
EMAIL: _tron@xoommail.com
WEBPAGE: http://members.xoom.com/_tron
TOPIC: Gardens
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: _v_garde.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Bryce 3D

TOOLS USED: 
    Rhinoceros and PaintShopPro

RENDER TIME: 
    2 hours +/- 30 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    PII with 64 Mb RAM and 4Mb S3 video card




IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


   ...in this remote planet there is a bridge that leads to 'the' garden;
the garden itself its nothing comparing to the legend; the legend says that
if you can reach the tree top of the dense forest that keeps the garden
safe, only then you see the real garden surrounded by strange mountains, 
mystic fog and deadly waters;

   ...one garden can be many things; it can be a garden where the stone rules,
like a cemetry (stone garden), it can be a field full of flowers or it can
be a composition of several types of flowers with a mixed of statues (the most
know garden); in this image the garden is more than a simple garden with 
fowers, trees and statues, the garden its all a view of the garden, what is 
surround by and the access bridge...




DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


   The moons are simple spheres with pre-defined textures; the mountains and 
base ground are terrains with pre-defined textures; same to the water and 
clouds; the sky is a pre-defined sky with a few changes in the fog, clouds 
(frequency/amplitude), sun position, etc...
   The bridge was build in Rhinoceros and imported to bryce by .dxf; the far
trees are ellipsoids with foliage texture; the near trees the camera are
objects from Bryce; the birds where taken from Neil Alexander entry for irtc
about nature;

   The scene contains 4 planes (2 for water, 1 for ground and other to
clouds); 4 terrains; 42 spheres; and about 5 trees;

   finaly PaintShopPro was used to convert to a .jpg file and do the 
signature.






ps: sorry my english... hope you understand... ;)
ps2: if you want the source, mail me...