EMAIL: tryan2@rochester.rr.com NAME: Ryan Twitchell TOPIC: Gardens COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: The Fairies Garden COUNTRY: USA WEBPAGE: none RENDERER USED: MegaPOV 0.3 TOOLS USED: sPatch, Leveller, WinMeshcomp, Paint Shop Pro RENDER TIME: 1 hours 7 minutes HARDWARE USED: PII 300Mhz IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A plentiful mushroom garden, deep inside the forest, guarded by the trees and grown by fairies. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Painfully, I must say at the end. Maybe it's just my bad coding, but the last two days I spent on this project was simply trying to get MegaPOV to trace the whole thing without crashing. I choose MegaPOV for its radiosity improvements, and paid the price of using beta software. Looking back, I'd say I had fun though. This was my first attempt at creating a major project, and I learned a lot. The mushrooms and trees were made in sPatch and compressed using WinMeshcomp, the ground height field (though it's barely visible now), was made in Leveller. All the textures were hand done.