TITLE: My Garden Patch NAME: Peter Murray COUNTRY: England EMAIL: peter@table76.demon.co.uk WEBPAGE: http://www.table76.demon.co.uk/POV/ TOPIC: Gardens COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: pdmgrden.jpg ZIPFILE: pdmgrden.zip RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1g Macintosh PPC TOOLS USED: DeskDraw to lay out house and garden originally, and credits imagemap. Adobe Photoshop to convert the image to JPEG. MPW Shell editor to edit include files. MacMegaPov PPC dec 12 1999 was used in development The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and Aristid Lindenmayer (Springer-Verlag 1990). RENDER TIME: Time For Parse: 0 hours 0 minutes 20.0 seconds (20 seconds) Time For Trace: 0 hours 27 minutes 20.0 seconds (1640 seconds) Total Time: 0 hours 27 minutes 40.0 seconds (1660 seconds) HARDWARE USED: Apple Macintosh G3 300MHz Desktop DISCLAIMER: Several L-systems were tormented while producing the picture, but no bears were harmed. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A teddy bear inspects his patch of the garden. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: As usual, I planned to do a different image - I wanted to model my own garden and then do an entry which showed my plans for it. However, the garden's still too overgrown for it to be practical to measure it in detail! So I started remodelling the previously-unseen garden of the house I made for the Unbelievable round. I didn't finish doing that, as I decided to zoom in on only a small part of it. Some of the detail that's visible in this image can't be seen clearly as it is. I may have missed something, but all the L-systems parsers I could find run as separate applications, so I tried writing one in the form of POV macros. There are still bugs in it, but it was used to model the plants in this scene anyway. The teddy bear file isn't in the zip file, as I think I've included it in enough previous zip files.