EMAIL: _tron@xoommail.com NAME: _Rodrigo_Correia TOPIC: Gardens COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: _view_of_a_garden COUNTRY: Portugal WEBPAGE: http://members.xoom.com/_tron RENDERER USED: Bryce 3D TOOLS USED: Rhinoceros and PaintShopPro RENDER TIME: 2 hours +/- 30 minutes HARDWARE USED: PII with 64 Mb RAM and 4Mb S3 video card IMAGE DESCRIPTION: ...in this remote planet there is a bridge that leads to 'the' garden; the garden itself its nothing comparing to the legend; the legend says that if you can reach the tree top of the dense forest that keeps the garden safe, only then you see the real garden surrounded by strange mountains, mystic fog and deadly waters; ...one garden can be many things; it can be a garden where the stone rules, like a cemetry (stone garden), it can be a field full of flowers or it can be a composition of several types of flowers with a mixed of statues (the most know garden); in this image the garden is more than a simple garden with fowers, trees and statues, the garden its all a view of the garden, what is surround by and the access bridge... DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The moons are simple spheres with pre-defined textures; the mountains and base ground are terrains with pre-defined textures; same to the water and clouds; the sky is a pre-defined sky with a few changes in the fog, clouds (frequency/amplitude), sun position, etc... The bridge was build in Rhinoceros and imported to bryce by .dxf; the far trees are ellipsoids with foliage texture; the near trees the camera are objects from Bryce; the birds where taken from Neil Alexander entry for irtc about nature; The scene contains 4 planes (2 for water, 1 for ground and other to clouds); 4 terrains; 42 spheres; and about 5 trees; finaly PaintShopPro was used to convert to a .jpg file and do the signature. ps: sorry my english... hope you understand... ;) ps2: if you want the source, mail me...