TITLE: Japanese GardenJPGFILE: lbjapang.jpg
ZIPFILE: lbjapang.zip        

NAME: Larry Boston
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: elboston@mint.net
WEBPAGE: None

TOPIC: Spirit of Asia
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: lbjapang.jpg
ZIPFILE: lbjapang.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    povray 3.1 ; megapov 0.7


TOOLS USED: 
    ms paint, corel painter 6, adobe photoshop light, hp scanner


RENDER TIME: 
    38 min


HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium III 733 mhz , 512 MB


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

 I wanted to create a scene that showed serenity.
A Japanese Garden seemed like a place that would be serene. Since I didn't know
much about Japanese gardens before this round, I had to research them.
I tried to uses some of the concepts of Japanese Gardening. I probably
didn't achieve a realistic garden, but hopefully I achieved the serene
aspect I was attempting. The small copy of Fuji between the pines shows the
use of borrowed landscape. The five rocks on the right illustrate the
principle of using 3,5 or 7 rocks together.
        Mount Fuji was added after I had worked on the project for a while.
At first I wasn't going to leave it in, but since it is the sacred mountain
of Japan and it looked better after I continued to work on it, I left it in. 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The scene was mostly created with constructive solid geometry.
The terrain however was converted from Bryce to POV using crossroads. The
textures for mount Fuji and for the distant 
hills were painted on hardboard with acrylics and scanned into the computer.
Some of the textures were taken
with the Olympus digital camera. Mount Fuji is a surface of revolution. Fuji's
coordinates and the  coordinates 
of the carp were taken from the coordinates of photos in paint. The coordinates
of the carp's outline 
were used to create prisms. The fins are prisms. Spheres and cones were
overlayed on the outline prism to create the body. 
        I have been working on a pine tree macro, but the macro takes a long
time to create a
tree, so I hand coded each branch. I had to increase my RAM from 128 to 512 to
complete the
project. I include some of the files in the ZIP file that don't require large
texture files. The file with the pines
in it require a fairly fast computer to complete within a reasonable time.
        I used ms paint and corel painter 6 to create TGA files for textures.
ADOBE photoshop was used to 
convert from BMP to JPG format.