EMAIL: YaelParis@operamail.com NAME: Yael PARIS TOPIC: Gardens COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: zen.jpg COUNTRY: France WEBPAGE: n/a RENDERER USED: Povray 3.1g TOOLS USED: Moray 3.1, Spatch 1.51, Photoshop 4.0 RENDER TIME: parse 52 seconds trace 55 minutes 35 seconds (3335 seconds) total 56 minutes 27 seconds (3387 seconds) HARDWARE USED: Celeron 400Mhz - 64Mo IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I've seen a kind of japanese garden for Living-room and it really appeals to me. As I'm quite lazy, I enjoy the idea of of garden without upkeep ;-) Here is the true meaning of the dry-garden : "Karesansui or dry gardens, a style developed in the Muromachi Era and representing Zen spiritualism. This style, which Morikami visitors may recognize from the Yamato-kan courtyard, is characterized by the use of sand and gravel to symbolize rivers and the sea and rocks to suggest distant mountains, islands, sea-going vessels - even waterfalls. The gardener will occasionally rake the sand and gravel in new patterns to reflect the ever-changing dynamics of nature." DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I'm new to this competition and to Povray aswell. So i tried to improve my skills more than anything else using several techniques. The sand of the dry garden is a HeigtField. Stones, glass, magazine and curtain have been created in Spatch then imported to Moray. All other objects are CSG. I used superquadric cube to create both sofa and table. The bonzai tree is made by a macro (thanks Maketree !) added manually in the generated Pov file. There's 3 lights in this scene to create a "true" lightning : 2 outside the room to create the sunlight (and cast shadow) 1 inside to improve the realism because the lights from outside are too much reduced by the several transparent components (Windows and curtain). I included pov, mdl (Moray) and spt (Spatch) files in the zip.