TITLE: Peaceful
NAME: Curtis Cooper
COUNTRY: Canada
EMAIL: curtis_cooper@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: http://members.tripod.com/coop_84/thisgif.html
TOPIC: Gardens
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: peaceful.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Pov-Ray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    Gimp for conversion

RENDER TIME: 
    2hr 18min

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium MMX

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

When I see gardens, the first thing that comes to mind is peace.  The peace
between many different worlds.  My image portrays that peace by showing the
relationship of plants, water and the earth.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

This is easily the best picture I have ever made with pov, everything you see in
this image (excluding the trees and spraying water) was made by me with pov
shapes, hand-coded in the pov editor.  The trees were an after thought simply
because I had nothing to put in that area of the picture, so I searched my comp
for some file that would make me a tree, and I found one, I am sorry, I do not
know the name of the author of this .inc file.  The water spraying from the
fountain was put there to show some motion in the picture, it is from Chris
Colefax's wonderful include file page.  I had alot of fun learning how to use
the #while loop command, which is pretty much what the fountain is, and the
house.  The bricks are made individually, they are superellipsoids.  As are the
shingles, but with the texture it is hard to see them.  Speaking of textures, I
made all of them, except the gold.  And the clouds are just scaled from
skies.inc.  Well, that's about it, everyone have a great holiday season.