EMAIL: jull43@ij.net
NAME: Matthias M. Giwer
TOPIC: Gardens
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Martin Gardner's Garden
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: http://www.giwersworld.org/artsii/
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1g
TOOLS USED: Graphics Worshop for jpeg conversion
RENDER TIME: 11h 4m (29m parse, error stream on) 
HARDWARE USED: PII/333 128M Win98

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Martin Gardner of times long passed in 
Scientific American's Mathematical Recreations certainly had a 
garden. His garden would certainly have nothing but math 
functions growing in it.  

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: By raiding every POV 
implemented math function I could find and then finding a place 
for them in the garden. It was a bit like being there.

As to credit for the functions as scene files, if credit was 
included in the file I raided it was not removed. Some such as 
the central flowers may have been created by Tore Nordstrand as 
the Dini function. 

Some did not work as found (note the abs() addition to the red 
"roses"). I know no more about the math or the functions than I 
can learn by reading the files, so questions need be directed 
elsewhere.