TITLE: My Garden NAME: Brenda Lawrence COUNTRY: Australia EMAIL: snoops@yp-connect.net TOPIC: Gardens COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: blbkyard.jpg ZIPFILE: blbkyard.zip RENDERER USED: Povray for Windows 3.1 TOOLS USED: Moray for Windows, sPatch, Plant Studio, Paint Shop Pro 6.0 RENDER TIME: About 5 hours IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Since I'm not too good with plants (both ray-traced and real), I figured I'd do a relatively plantless garden. Didn't have to go too far for inspiration either, just out my back-door. (Although I added considerably more plants). DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I went outside with a tape measure and paper and pencil, and made a scale drawing. The individual models are made in Moray, sPatch and Plant Studio, then placed and fine tuned in povray. The corrugated iron is a translational sweep duplicated a couple of times to make the fence. The graffiti is an intersection of some text and a spare sheet of iron I had lying around. The permapine post is a cylinder with a wood texture that I spent many hours pulling my hair out over, but eventually go it to look allright. Then I put a big plant in front of it so you can't really see it anyway. For the pavers, I made one, then made lots of copies, and spent the afternoon laying pavers one by one. Then I messed them up a bit, to look more like the ones outside. The ground is a cube with a dirt texture, with randomly placed squashed spheres on it. The rocks are all made in S-patch. The weeds were created with Plant studio. The little ones in the dirt placed at random. The cigarette packet was originally a much more complex model from another image, but the bounding box was showing up, so it's now just a cube with the labels stuck on it. The plant pot is a rotational sweep, as are the beer bottles The image was rendered using radiosity. Being a beginner, and having no idea what radiosity was, I decided to try it to see what happened. The result was the fence looking more like second hand iron that someone had used to clean their paintbrushes on, which was what I had been trying to acheive since I started.