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.








