EMAIL: elboston@mint.net NAME: Larry Boston TOPIC: Spirit of Asia COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Japanese Garden JPGFILE: lbjapang.jpg ZIPFILE: lbjapang.zip COUNTRY: USA WEBPAGE: None RENDERER USED: povray 3.1 ; megapov 0.7 TOOLS USED: ms paint, corel painter 6, adobe photoshop light, hp scanner RENDER TIME: 38 min HARDWARE USED: Pentium III 733 mhz , 512 MB IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I wanted to create a scene that showed serenity. A Japanese Garden seemed like a place that would be serene. Since I didn't know much about Japanese gardens before this round, I had to research them. I tried to uses some of the concepts of Japanese Gardening. I probably didn't achieve a realistic garden, but hopefully I achieved the serene aspect I was attempting. The small copy of Fuji between the pines shows the use of borrowed landscape. The five rocks on the right illustrate the principle of using 3,5 or 7 rocks together. Mount Fuji was added after I had worked on the project for a while. At first I wasn't going to leave it in, but since it is the sacred mountain of Japan and it looked better after I continued to work on it, I left it in. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The scene was mostly created with constructive solid geometry. The terrain however was converted from Bryce to POV using crossroads. The textures for mount Fuji and for the distant hills were painted on hardboard with acrylics and scanned into the computer. Some of the textures were taken with the Olympus digital camera. Mount Fuji is a surface of revolution. Fuji's coordinates and the coordinates of the carp were taken from the coordinates of photos in paint. The coordinates of the carp's outline were used to create prisms. The fins are prisms. Spheres and cones were overlayed on the outline prism to create the body. I have been working on a pine tree macro, but the macro takes a long time to create a tree, so I hand coded each branch. I had to increase my RAM from 128 to 512 to complete the project. I include some of the files in the ZIP file that don't require large texture files. The file with the pines in it require a fairly fast computer to complete within a reasonable time. I used ms paint and corel painter 6 to create TGA files for textures. ADOBE photoshop was used to convert from BMP to JPG format.