I thought I'd lost this from 20+ years ago and never could get that look back.
"Rendered" this time around as SVG, but the algorithm is identical to the way I
did it in POV.

Made a few hundred (you've got to love parameterization) and bot them out on X
twice a week. Still enamored with images like this. Some things never change.

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On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:34:30 EST, Shay wrote:

> I thought I'd lost this from 20+ years ago and never could get that look
> back. "Rendered" this time around as SVG, but the algorithm is identical
> to the way I did it in POV.
> 
> Made a few hundred (you've got to love parameterization) and bot them
> out on X twice a week. Still enamored with images like this. Some things
> never change.

Excellent to see you around again - always enjoyed seeing your creations, 
and always marveled at their construction.



-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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"Shay" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I thought I'd lost this from 20+ years ago

Welcome back to the forums, and Hello.

I was never here at the same time you were, but I've read a great many of your
posts.



- BE

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Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:34:30 EST, Shay wrote:
>
> > I thought I'd lost this from 20+ years ago and never could get that look
> > back. "Rendered" this time around as SVG, but the algorithm is identical
> > to the way I did it in POV.
> >
> > Made a few hundred (you've got to love parameterization) and bot them
> > out on X twice a week. Still enamored with images like this. Some things
> > never change.
>
> Excellent to see you around again - always enjoyed seeing your creations,
> and always marveled at their construction.
>
>
>
> --
> "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and
> besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

I still do quite a bit of rendering, though it's predominantly SVG now. I even
occasionally get paid for it.

POV-Ray reinvigorated my interest in programming (now a major interest, 1500+
commits this year), taught me linear algebra, and developed my trig. I remember
asking ABX what a sum symbol was, and now I blog about math. I took a lot from
this program and this community, most of it good ;).

I still use an old POV image as my personal brand on GitHub and my website. It
reminds me of good times and good people, and my tastes haven't changed. I still
use POV-Ray occasionally for work (example attached). If you'd like to see
anything I've rendered over the past 20 years, the best place to look is
probably my automatic X feed. I don't read X, and neither should anyone else,
but if you're interested, my bot is loaded with around 1000 procedurally
generated images.

https://x.com/fsafety_llc

Great hearing from you, Jim.

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Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:34:30 EST, Shay wrote:
>
> > I thought I'd lost this from 20+ years ago and never could get that look
> > back. "Rendered" this time around as SVG, but the algorithm is identical
> > to the way I did it in POV.
> >
> > Made a few hundred (you've got to love parameterization) and bot them
> > out on X twice a week. Still enamored with images like this. Some things
> > never change.
>
> Excellent to see you around again - always enjoyed seeing your creations,
> and always marveled at their construction.
>
>
>
> --
> "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and
> besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

From: "Shay" <nomail@nomail>
Newsgroups: povray.off-topic
Subject: Re: I found some old POV-Ray code

Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:34:30 EST, Shay wrote:
>
> > I thought I'd lost this from 20+ years ago and never could get that look
> > back. "Rendered" this time around as SVG, but the algorithm is identical
> > to the way I did it in POV.
> >
> > Made a few hundred (you've got to love parameterization) and bot them
> > out on X twice a week. Still enamored with images like this. Some things
> > never change.
>
> Excellent to see you around again - always enjoyed seeing your creations,
> and always marveled at their construction.
>
>
>
> --
> "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and
> besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

I still do quite a bit of rendering, though it's predominantly SVG now. I even
occasionally get paid for it.

POV-Ray reinvigorated my interest in programming (now a major interest, 1500+
commits this year), taught me linear algebra, and developed my trig. I remember
asking ABX what a sum symbol was, and now I blog about math. I took a lot from
this program and this community, most of it good ;).

I still use an old POV image as my personal brand on GitHub and my website. It
reminds me of good times and good people, and my tastes haven't changed. I still
use POV-Ray occasionally for work. If you'd like to see
anything I've rendered over the past 20 years, the best place to look is
probably my automatic X feed. I don't read X, and neither should anyone else,
but if you're interested, my bot is loaded with around 1000 procedurally
generated images.

https://x.com/fsafety_llc

Great hearing from you, Jim.

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"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> "Shay" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > I thought I'd lost this from 20+ years ago
>
> Welcome back to the forums, and Hello.
>
> I was never here at the same time you were, but I've read a great many of your
> posts.
>
>
>
> - BE

That's encouraging, humbling, and frightening at the same time. I stand behind
my images, but I hope I've matured a bit over the past two decades.

Thank you.

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On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:07:50 EST, Shay wrote:

> I still use an old POV image as my personal brand on GitHub and my
> website. It reminds me of good times and good people, and my tastes
> haven't changed. I still use POV-Ray occasionally for work (example
> attached). If you'd like to see anything I've rendered over the past 20
> years, the best place to look is probably my automatic X feed. I don't
> read X, and neither should anyone else, but if you're interested, my bot
> is loaded with around 1000 procedurally generated images.

Very cool, I'll check out the stuff your bot posts (I don't have an X 
account, so if I have to log in, that sadly won't happen)



-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:07:50 EST, Shay wrote:
>
> Very cool, I'll check out the stuff your bot posts (I don't have an X
> account, so if I have to log in, that sadly won't happen)


Good on you. I had a bot before I quit in the late teens. I've thought about
turning it back on for a while but waited until any temptation to actually look
at X content had long passed. I did take a quick look around, because some
friends followed and I wanted to see what they were up to, but the sameness
(same takes, same sports, same gossip) turned my stomach. X is 100% safe for me
now because I've zero temptation to read it. Social media is a cancer, BUT all
of my work comes from networking (five years in business and I haven't had a
single cold call), so reminding people I'm still alive (or at least my bot is)
is important. And it gives me an excuse to go back and visit the decades of
projects and interests I've fed it with: images, stories, poems, and hobbies I'd
forgotten.

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On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:24:43 EST, Shay wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:07:50 EST, Shay wrote:
>>
>> Very cool, I'll check out the stuff your bot posts (I don't have an X
>> account, so if I have to log in, that sadly won't happen)
> 
> 
> Good on you. I had a bot before I quit in the late teens. I've thought
> about turning it back on for a while but waited until any temptation to
> actually look at X content had long passed. I did take a quick look
> around, because some friends followed and I wanted to see what they were
> up to, but the sameness (same takes, same sports, same gossip) turned my
> stomach. X is 100% safe for me now because I've zero temptation to read
> it. Social media is a cancer, BUT all of my work comes from networking
> (five years in business and I haven't had a single cold call), so
> reminding people I'm still alive (or at least my bot is) is important.
> And it gives me an excuse to go back and visit the decades of projects
> and interests I've fed it with: images, stories, poems, and hobbies I'd
> forgotten.

Yeah, I've got a few social media accounts that are there for keeping in 
touch with folks who are there, but otherwise, I don't tend to spend a lot 
of time up there myself apart from a couple FB groups that I agreed to 
admin.

I just started my own business, so LinkedIn is somewhat a "necessary 
evil", so I think of it as a creative outlet for work-related content.  
The business is pretty new and I'm seeking clients, and am a member of 
several professional orgs related to the business, so staying in contact 
there is necessary.

But I avoided Twitter/X/Bluesky and most of those kinds of things; mostly 
online forums and groups like these are what have sustained my need for 
interaction online with people.
-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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