Jason wrote:
> 
> I was wondering if anyone had this book and what they
> thought of it. I am trying to track down a copy through a
> local book store, but before I pay the price to find it
> (because it's out of print) I want to make sure that it's
> something that I want.
>  Some of the things I was wondering were:
> what does it cover (ie: basic syntax and program functions
> or does it get into detail about some of the more complex
> math functions POV is capable of)?
>  what version of POV was released when the book was
>  published?

It is a very good read because it gives you an insight as to how
the whole raytracing process works. It was however written for
POV-Ray v2.2 and as such has no information on the math functions
that were later introduced in v3.0.

You can read a little more about it here -

http://members.iquest.net/~cyoung/ray/

-- 
Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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