Abe Heckenbach wrote:

> I'm interested in joining the POV-team to discuss ray tracing
> techniques, and...

 Well, there's no such thing as "joining the POV-Team".  The source
code is availiable, and you're free to play along with it, and
even releasing special version, provided you follow some rules.

 If the POV-Team (currently coordinated by Chris Cason) feels
that the work you done could be of interest in the general POV-Ray
development, then it might happen that you join them, but it's
at their sole discretion (it's not some kind of "secret society"!,
but they have to assure themselves some quietness and a good
grip on POV-Ray's evolution).

 If you want to "discuss raytacing techniques", there is the
povray.programming newsgroup, where plenty of competent people
will gladly discuss that with you !

Fabien.

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