Hi(gh)!

On 02.08.25 04:11, Clarence1898 wrote:
> I was going through some old drives and found this one.  I posted this probably
> 20 years ago as my obligatory first RSOCP.  I came across Povray in the early
> 90s and have used it off and on ever since.  I thought it might be interesting
> to see what programming Pov scenes would be like in the 1970's.  Just for a
> little background, I've been a mainframe programmer since 1969, and now enjoy
> programming PC's.

When I read the subject, I first thought of ASCII art... such as the 
physical maps based on early Landsat altimetry data I once saw in a 
1970s issue of "Afghanistan Journal", just numeric characters (0 to 9) 
for different altitude ranges and then manually(!) coloured...

I could very well imagine coding a rudimentary raytracer on my Commodore 
64 and then print the rendered scenes as such ASCII graphics...

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

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