EMAIL: YaelParis@operamail.com
NAME: Yael PARIS
TOPIC: Gardens
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: zen.jpg
COUNTRY: France
WEBPAGE: n/a
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.1g
TOOLS USED: Moray 3.1, Spatch 1.51, Photoshop 4.0
RENDER TIME: parse 52 seconds
             trace 55 minutes 35 seconds (3335 seconds)
             total 56 minutes 27 seconds (3387 seconds)
HARDWARE USED: Celeron 400Mhz - 64Mo
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

I've seen a kind of japanese garden for Living-room and it really appeals to me. 
As I'm quite lazy, I enjoy the idea of of garden without upkeep ;-)

Here is the true meaning of the dry-garden :
"Karesansui or dry gardens, a style developed in the Muromachi Era and representing 
Zen spiritualism. This style, which Morikami visitors may recognize from the Yamato-kan
courtyard, is characterized by the use of sand and gravel to symbolize rivers and the
sea and rocks to suggest distant mountains, islands, sea-going vessels - even waterfalls.
The gardener will occasionally rake the sand and gravel in new patterns to reflect the 
ever-changing dynamics of nature."


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
I'm new to this competition and to Povray aswell. So i tried to improve my skills more
than anything else using several techniques.

The sand of the dry garden is a HeigtField.
Stones, glass, magazine and curtain have been created in Spatch then imported to Moray.
All other objects are CSG. I used superquadric cube to create both sofa and table.
The bonzai tree is made by a macro (thanks Maketree !) added manually in the generated 
Pov file.

There's 3 lights in this scene to create a "true" lightning : 
2 outside the room to create the sunlight (and cast shadow)
1 inside to improve the realism because the lights from outside are too much
reduced by the several transparent components (Windows and curtain).

I included pov, mdl (Moray) and spt (Spatch) files in the zip.