Yikes.. only 14/50 here.

Alex Vandiver wrote:

> 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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