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