POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Happy birthday ! : Re: Happy birthday ! Server Time
9 Aug 2024 11:30:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Happy birthday !  
From: Alessandro Coppo
Date: 31 Jul 2000 14:08:07
Message: <3985C1F4.DD7FE995@iol.it>
Fabien Mosen wrote:

> Nine years ago...
>
> <<
> Version 0.02 BETA Release 7/29/91 (as STAR-Light)
> ----------------------------------
>  First version is still basically DKBTrace 2.12 with a few new features.
>
>  - Materials mapping added by Drew Wells.(see matmap.dat)
>  - ONION & LEOPARD textures added by Scott Taylor.
>  - Time to trace display added by Bill Pulver.
>  - Grayscale display (+g) for IBM-PC's added by Scott Taylor.
>  - Small wood texture bug fixed to create true cylinders.
>  - Verbose now displays more info including file being traced.
>  - Option +vO added to enable old-style terse verbose.
>  - Texture.c broken into smaller modules.
>  - PAINTED1, 2, & 3 added for developers.
>  - BUMPY1, 2, & 3 added for developers.
> >>
>
> (excerpt from "history.doc", accompanying PV-Ray 0.5 beta package)

It would be beautiful to have on www.povray.org a page with all the
history.doc infos...


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