EMAIL: melundbe@mtu.edu	
NAME: Marcus Lundberg
TOPIC: Fantastic Landscapes
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: the Sky is Blue, the Trees are Green
COUNTRY: Sweden
RENDERER USED: MegaPOV .7
TOOLS USED: none
RENDER TIME: a few minutes

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
This is a cartoony looking forest on rolling hills, with a stream running between the trees.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
This was the best I could do with POVRay.  I didn't want to learn any landscape specific modeler, so I decided to have some fun with it.  First, I started rendering a bunch of leaves hanging in mid-air to simulate actual trees, but the scene would not render as it is rather large, and I was unable to make a transition to simpler trees in the background look sufficiently good.  Instead, I just used some random blobs to create the tree tops.  The landscape itself is a heightfield.