One thing the POV community is missing is a POV *ity test; in other
words, what insane things have you done with POV and/or what strange
tricks do you know?  This has no bearing on your artistic ability, POV
knowledge, or general worth.. ;>  I care not so much for scores as for
additions/corrections.  This list does have some overlap with the 'You
know you have been raytracing too long when..' list, with the difference
that some people have actually done these things..
Without further ado,
POV-Ray *ity test, 50 questions
SIMPLE STUFF
..rendered a 'reflective sphere over checkered plane' scene?
..rendered all of the examples?
..shamelessly stolen and modified one of the examples?
..used POV units less than 0.0001?
 ..less than 0.000001?
..greater than 10000?
 ..greater than 1000000?
..done an entire render at 1pps?
..nested more than ten {} blocks?
 ..more than twenty {} blocks?
..upgraded just to speed up your rendering time?

UGLIER STUFF
..generated height_fields in POV-Ray, for use in POV-Ray?
..hand-coded bezier patches?
 ..polygons?
 ..meshes?
 ..smooth_triangles?
..hand-coded using the right-handed system?
 ..by mistake?
 ..using some other system (neither right nor left)?
..manually specified bounding?
..manually specified clipping?
..known the difference between bounding and clipping?
..done animation?
 ..wthout the clock variable?
..used media?
 ..and gotten it to work the first time?
..used the matrix command?
..used julia_fractals?
..used poly, cubic, quartic, or quadric?

#PROGRAMMING
..used a macro?
..written a macro?
..written a recursive macro?
 ..for something other than a fractal?
..written a macro only to do mathmatical operations?
..used file I/O directives?

PATCHES
..used a patched version of POV-Ray?
..looked at the POV-Ray source?
..changed the source?
 ..and had it work the way you wanted the first time?
 ..with beneficial consequences?
..released a patch?
 ..that was included in the Superpatch?
 ..that was included in the official build?

NEWSGROUPS
..been forced to go to/gone to p.o.t?
..posted a binary in the wrong group?
..been involved in a flame war? (>50 messages in one thread)
 ..not on p.o-t?

OTHER
..used DKB-Trace?
..contributed to this list?
..contributed to the YKYBRTLW.. list?

Additions?
-Alex Vandiver

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