EMAIL:		jull43@tampabay.rr.com
NAME:		Matt Giwer
TOPIC:		Desert
COPYRIGHT:	I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE:		Shade
COUNTRY:	USA
WEBPAGE:	http://www.giwersworld.org/artv/ & artiv/ & artiii/
RENDERER USED:	povray 3.5
TOOLS USED:	gimp
RENDER TIME:	
HARDWARE USED:	Celeron 400, 64M, linux 2.4.18-3 kernel
		PII 333, 128M, linux 2.4.18-3 kernel
VIEWING:	The usual highly recommended computer

GENERAL INFO:	

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

	The shadow remarked upon how perfectly he was shaded from the sun
but still complained he could not see the sun.

	When considering a subject, look to its opposite. Obviously a
tropical forest is off topic so we look to the opposite of a major feature,
the sun. 

	Which all sounds thoughtful and even philosophical. But the fact is
a girlfriend once described seeing something like this in the Sahara while
traveling for the US State Department. She thought it was funny. So do I.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

	My first version was a palm from POVTREE which took a couple hours
to slap together. Not much for a serious entry. While the foliage is great
in POVTREE the truck sucks. This being Florida, a short walk around the
neighborhood gave me the range of patterns. A search on images.google.com
came up with how the trunk appears in real pictures.

	Palm trees are trivial compared to other trees. They are
repetatively geometric therefore easy to model. After coming up with a
"reasonable" palm tree, realism is enhanced by introducing randomness. In
this case it is mostly in the leaves. Because of point of view randomness in
the fronds as a whole is not noticable.

	The entire source is included in the zip, "povray dom.ini" will
recreate it. The shape used for the trunk is not good enough as-is for a
close up. Something else will have to be used if that is what you need.
Perhaps simply normal{dents 3} but I haven't tried it.

	Gimp was used for conversion to jpg and copyright addition.