TITLE: Formal Garden NAME: Ian & Ethel MacKay COUNTRY: Australia EMAIL: ethelm@bigfoot.com WEBPAGE: http://www.hermes.net.au/artwerx/ TOPIC: Gardens COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: formal.jpg ZIPFILE: formal.zip RENDERER USED: Povray 3.1 for DOS TOOLS USED: None RENDER TIME: 2 hours & 30 minutes HARDWARE USED: Pentium 233 with 64 Meg RAM. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This is a generic "municipal gardens" image. In this part of the world, at least, most towns and municipalities have formal public gardens, usually laid out about 100 years ago. They have lawns neatly trimmed, a lake or pond, a rotunda and formal flower beds. They look today much as they did a 100 years ago. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The whole image is original for this round. All hand coded. The lake is cut out with a spline. Most of the image is simple CSG with colour maps. There is no anti-aliasing as this destroys the illusion of detail and makes the image muddy. The wistaria uses most of the memory and parsing time, so was commented out while the rest of the image was being constructed. Pov file is formal.zip