TITLE: zen.jpg
NAME: Yael PARIS
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: YaelParis@operamail.com
WEBPAGE: n/a
TOPIC: Gardens
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: zen.jpg
ZIPFILE: zen.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.1g

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray 3.1, Spatch 1.51, Photoshop 4.0

RENDER TIME: 
    parse 52 seconds
             trace 55 minutes 35 seconds (3335 seconds)
             total 56 minutes 27 seconds (3387 seconds)

HARDWARE USED: 
    Celeron 400Mhz - 64Mo

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


I've seen a kind of japanese garden for Living-room and it really appeals to me.

As I'm quite lazy, I enjoy the idea of of garden without upkeep ;-)

Here is the true meaning of the dry-garden :
"Karesansui or dry gardens, a style developed in the Muromachi Era and
representing 
Zen spiritualism. This style, which Morikami visitors may recognize from the
Yamato-kan
courtyard, is characterized by the use of sand and gravel to symbolize rivers
and the
sea and rocks to suggest distant mountains, islands, sea-going vessels - even
waterfalls.
The gardener will occasionally rake the sand and gravel in new patterns to
reflect the 
ever-changing dynamics of nature."



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I'm new to this competition and to Povray aswell. So i tried to improve my
skills more
than anything else using several techniques.

The sand of the dry garden is a HeigtField.
Stones, glass, magazine and curtain have been created in Spatch then imported to
Moray.
All other objects are CSG. I used superquadric cube to create both sofa and
table.
The bonzai tree is made by a macro (thanks Maketree !) added manually in the
generated 
Pov file.

There's 3 lights in this scene to create a "true" lightning : 
2 outside the room to create the sunlight (and cast shadow)
1 inside to improve the realism because the lights from outside are too much
reduced by the several transparent components (Windows and curtain).

I included pov, mdl (Moray) and spt (Spatch) files in the zip.