TITLE: the Sky is Blue, the Trees are Green
NAME: Marcus Lundberg
COUNTRY: Sweden
EMAIL: melundbe@mtu.edu
TOPIC: Fantastic Landscapes
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: skyblue.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    MegaPOV .7

TOOLS USED: 
    none

RENDER TIME: 
    a few minutes


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

This is a cartoony looking forest on rolling hills, with a stream running
between the trees.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

This was the best I could do with POVRay.  I didn't want to learn any landscape
specific modeler, so I decided to have some fun with it.  First, I started
rendering a bunch of leaves hanging in mid-air to simulate actual trees, but
the scene would not render as it is rather large, and I was unable to make a
transition to simpler trees in the background look sufficiently good.  Instead,
I just used some random blobs to create the tree tops.  The landscape itself is
a heightfield.