Ken wrote:

> > Areas I feel need covered:
> >
> >  1. Media
> >  2. Animation
> >  3. Radiosity
> >  4. The Texture and Pigment process
> >  5. Conditional statments
> >  6. What is in and what is out (the Pov surface normal)
> >  7. CSG operations - goes with above
> >  8. The camera statement - Seems simple now but there was a time ...
> >  9. When to use an external program, include file, etc...
> > 10. How to convert the output from the above to useful syntax in Pov
> > 11. Macros !!!
> 12. Blobs !!!

When I first began, I wanted:

* How to organize your .pov file  (there being many ways, of course, but
how hard it was to come up with even just one way!)
* pigments with nozero filter and transmit values - I had some weird
troubles with these, even after one year of use.  (Turned out they were
acting weird due to bugs I had in my old dispersion hacks.)
* A lighting tutorial.  Sure, the existing docs explain the light_source
syntax, but I haven't seen anything anywhere, well, one short web page,
on the artistic aspects of using lights.   Basic photographic lighting
techniques and some theater lighting tips would be so helpful to many
POV-Ray artists.
* Colors - choosing harmonious, pleasant colors comes natural to most
artists, but few can translate them mentally into RGB.  So let's add some
basic color theory, and how to tweak colors in a scene you're almost
happy with.


Daren Scot Wilson
dar### [at] pipelinecom
www.newcolor.com
Still w/o a  real .signature file....so dont' trust the spelling of my
email address.

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