EMAIL: bonsalva@bellsouth.net
NAME: Raymond A. Salvatore		
TOPIC:Gardens
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE:The Garden of the Sun and Moon at Twilight		

COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE:
RENDERER USED: Raydream Studio 5.5 raytracer
TOOLS USED:Picture Publisher for jpc conversion and Raydream Studio 5.5 
  HP digital camera and Adobe Illustrator 7
RENDER TIME: 45 minutes
HARDWARE USED: PENTIUM 233 MMX WITH 64 MEG SDRAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:I wanted to create lots of great flowers, then realized
that the flowers are only half of a garden. I also wanted some kind of
pool to be in the center.  I got some great ideas from Kerrie the Desert
Queen- her site on Norman Lindsay is where I found information about his
garden which has concrete statues of nude women around a pool.  She also
has a site about her own pool with statues.  I was able to make two statues
which were inspired by a vintage  nudes photograph site.  I realized that
I could create a garden representing the sun and moon after texturing one
statue in silver and the other in gold.  Since the moon is just appearing
over the hill, I made the silver goddess reveal herself from behind a thin
blanket.  The sun statue or goddess is covering herself with blanket while
the setting sun shines red and low over the hills to the west.  I also
divided the colors of the flowers between the sun- reds and yellows and
the moon- white, blue and violet.  The statue pouring water into the pool
represents earth.  The earth goddess sits between the other two and
 pours the elixir of life out of an  vase eternally (or as long as
the elecric pump keeps going.)

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I used the freeform modeler
to create petals and rotated them around a center.  I made leaves the
same way.  The carnation and rose petals were made in the meshform modeler
for a more crumpled look.  The hills under and around the garden are
meshform objects grouped, twisted and deformed in various ways.  There
are more than 20 shapes.  I used photos of my own backyard ivy to add 
texture tiles to those shapes.  The pool is hexagonal forms layered one
on top of the next.  The sun and moon statues are freeform cutouts using
Adobe Illustator to make sections from downloaded photos. Some of the sections
were run through the meshform modeler to bend and pull out some 3d shape.
The pedestals, vase, temple pillars and steps, and garden blocks were all
made in the freeform modeller.  The frogs and earth goddess were made using
Bluble (which is part of the Raydream Studio.) Everything in the picture 
was made by me for this entry except the owl- I made him for a past entry
and decided that he would look good sitting on the Goddess of Night's hand.
I used the 4elements part of Raydream Studio for the sky but added clouds to
blur out the temple a bit.  I hope you enjoy it.