TITLE: Naturally NAME: John Tougas COUNTRY: United States EMAIL: jtougas@ix.netcom.com WEBPAGE: pweb.netcom.com/~tougas TOPIC: Contrast COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: jtcntrst.jpg ZIPFILE: jtcntrst.zip RENDERER USED: POV-Ray3.1 TOOLS USED: sPatch, Moray RENDER TIME: 53 minutes 46 seconds, @ 800x600 w/ AA .3 HARDWARE USED: PII 300MMX w/ 128MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I was having a hard time figuring out what I would do for this topic, particularly since this would be my first entry. One day, on the way out the door to lunch, I spotted this fern growing out of some decayed pine needles on the steps of the building. That's what I tried to duplicate: the contrast of what we make for ourselves versus what Nature makes for herself. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The leaves were created in sPatch in about 20 minutes, the bricks and pine needles were all created inside Moray using the 'Copy Object' routine, as was the composite fern. Overall creation took about two or three hours, followed by countless hours of tweaking textures and composition :-).