TITLE: My Garden Patch
NAME: Peter Murray
COUNTRY: England
EMAIL: peter@table76.demon.co.uk
WEBPAGE: http://www.table76.demon.co.uk/POV/
TOPIC: Gardens
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: pdmgrden.jpg
ZIPFILE: pdmgrden.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1g Macintosh PPC

TOOLS USED: 

    DeskDraw to lay out house and garden originally, and credits imagemap.
    Adobe Photoshop to convert the image to JPEG.
    MPW Shell editor to edit include files.
        MacMegaPov PPC dec 12 1999 was used in development
    The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and
        Aristid Lindenmayer (Springer-Verlag 1990).

RENDER TIME: 

    Time For Parse:    0 hours  0 minutes  20.0 seconds (20 seconds)
    Time For Trace:    0 hours 27 minutes  20.0 seconds (1640 seconds)
        Total Time:    0 hours 27 minutes  40.0 seconds (1660 seconds)

HARDWARE USED: 
    Apple Macintosh G3 300MHz Desktop
DISCLAIMER: Several L-systems were tormented while producing the picture,
    but no bears were harmed.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    A teddy bear inspects his patch of the garden.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

As usual, I planned to do a different image - I wanted to model my
own garden and then do an entry which showed my plans for it.  However,
the garden's still too overgrown for it to be practical to measure it
in detail!  So I started remodelling the previously-unseen garden of
the house I made for the Unbelievable round.  I didn't finish doing
that, as I decided to zoom in on only a small part of it.  Some of the
detail that's visible in this image can't be seen clearly as it is.

I may have missed something, but all the L-systems parsers I could find
run as separate applications, so I tried writing one in the form of POV
macros.  There are still bugs in it, but it was used to model the plants in
this scene anyway.

The teddy bear file isn't in the zip file, as I think I've included it
in enough previous zip files.

