EMAIL: slreid@micron.net NAME: Steven L. Reid TOPIC: Nature COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Baby Grass COUNTRY: U.S.A. WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/1969 RENDERER USED: POVRAY 3.02 for Windows TOOLS USED: Perl5 RENDER TIME: 19 minutes, 1 second HARDWARE USED: Digital 100MHZ Pentium with 24MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A scene taking from my backyard, literally! A patch of newly growing grass, baby grass, flanked by a wooden fence and an automatic sprinkler (not currently on). DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I started with a simple blade of grass. It is an elongated cylinder that has been cut by two spheres. I wrote a small perl program (see grass.pl) that randonly places the blades of grass. I directedt he output of the grass.pl program to the grass.pov file. I then created a scene to place the grass into. The babygrass.pov file contains the definitions for the fence, sprinkler, and, of course, the blades of grass. The final line just includes the grass.pov file. Enjoy! Steven