hehe, am I the only one who took a look at the jibberish in the file, gave up, and
opened
te example files in a normal text-editor, trying to find out what was what ?
Well, once that was passed, I had the basics on it, I went into the doc's and read all
of
the things I had caught, learning the tips and trix on the way :-)

//Spider

Mike wrote:
> 
> I skipped that section. :)
> 
> Actually, that's not entirely true.  First I drew out some patches on
> grid paper, tried to input it by hand, rendered it...then skipped that
> section.
> 
> -Mike
> 
> Dan Connelly wrote:
> >
> > When I first downloaded POV, I got to the bicubic patch section of the tutorial,
> > was utterly and totally confused, put it aside and let it sit idle for around
> > 6 months..... I almost purged it from my system until I entered IRTC
> > with Ray Dream Studio and received several comments that I should have
> > used POV-Ray instead.  So instead of following tutorials, I tried
> > to reproduce my Ray Dream Studio image in POV by using the reference section,
> > realized how elegent and simple it was, and became hooked.  But the tutorial
> > almost lost me..... I came very close to uninstalling it from my disk.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > > Tutorials must flow.  Our current tutorial teaches bicubic_patch before box
> > > & cone because it comes first alphabetically!  That's stupid!
> >
> > --
> > http://www.flash.net/~djconnel/

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