TITLE: The Garden of the Sun and Moon at Twilight NAME: Raymond A. Salvatore COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: bonsalva@bellsouth.net TOPIC: Gardens COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: rasgarde.jpg RENDERER USED: Raydream Studio 5.5 raytracer TOOLS USED: Picture Publisher for jpc conversion and Raydream Studio 5.5 HP digital camera and Adobe Illustrator 7 RENDER TIME: 45 minutes HARDWARE USED: PENTIUM 233 MMX WITH 64 MEG SDRAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I wanted to create lots of great flowers, then realized that the flowers are only half of a garden. I also wanted some kind of pool to be in the center. I got some great ideas from Kerrie the Desert Queen- her site on Norman Lindsay is where I found information about his garden which has concrete statues of nude women around a pool. She also has a site about her own pool with statues. I was able to make two statues which were inspired by a vintage nudes photograph site. I realized that I could create a garden representing the sun and moon after texturing one statue in silver and the other in gold. Since the moon is just appearing over the hill, I made the silver goddess reveal herself from behind a thin blanket. The sun statue or goddess is covering herself with blanket while the setting sun shines red and low over the hills to the west. I also divided the colors of the flowers between the sun- reds and yellows and the moon- white, blue and violet. The statue pouring water into the pool represents earth. The earth goddess sits between the other two and pours the elixir of life out of an vase eternally (or as long as the elecric pump keeps going.) DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I used the freeform modeler to create petals and rotated them around a center. I made leaves the same way. The carnation and rose petals were made in the meshform modeler for a more crumpled look. The hills under and around the garden are meshform objects grouped, twisted and deformed in various ways. There are more than 20 shapes. I used photos of my own backyard ivy to add texture tiles to those shapes. The pool is hexagonal forms layered one on top of the next. The sun and moon statues are freeform cutouts using Adobe Illustator to make sections from downloaded photos. Some of the sections were run through the meshform modeler to bend and pull out some 3d shape. The pedestals, vase, temple pillars and steps, and garden blocks were all made in the freeform modeller. The frogs and earth goddess were made using Bluble (which is part of the Raydream Studio.) Everything in the picture was made by me for this entry except the owl- I made him for a past entry and decided that he would look good sitting on the Goddess of Night's hand. I used the 4elements part of Raydream Studio for the sky but added clouds to blur out the temple a bit. I hope you enjoy it.