EMAIL: tryan2@rochester.rr.com
NAME: Ryan Twitchell
TOPIC: Gardens
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: The Fairies Garden
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: none
RENDERER USED: MegaPOV 0.3
TOOLS USED: sPatch, Leveller, WinMeshcomp, Paint Shop Pro
RENDER TIME: 1 hours 7 minutes
HARDWARE USED: PII 300Mhz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
     A plentiful mushroom garden, deep inside the forest, guarded by the 
trees and grown by fairies.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
     Painfully, I must say at the end. Maybe it's just my bad coding, but
the last two days I spent on this project was simply trying to get MegaPOV
to trace the whole thing without crashing. I choose MegaPOV for its 
radiosity improvements, and paid the price of using beta software. Looking
back, I'd say I had fun though. This was my first attempt at creating
a major project, and I learned a lot.
     The mushrooms and trees were made in sPatch and compressed using 
WinMeshcomp, the ground height field (though it's barely visible now), was
made in Leveller. All the textures were hand done.