Tom Melly wrote:
> "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message news:3e81ae1f@news.povray.org...
> 
>>Matt Harbers <gte### [at] prismgatechedu> wrote:
>>
>>>What would be the best thing for me to do to get really good at
>>>it.  Are there books that will help me or what do you people suggest?
>>
>>  Read the documentation. That's what I did (and I'm sure most povrayers did)
>>to learn to use the program.
>>
> 
> 
> What Warp said. Also (since he's too modest), check out Warp's VFAQ at:
> http://www.students.tut.fi/~warp/povQandT/
> 
> and, if you want to avoid my main error, make sure you understand how transforms
> (scale, rotate, translate) work, particularily in reference to <0,0,0>
> 
> Other apparently required activities include:-
> 
> 1. Post an image of a mirrored sphere hovering over a checkered plane. Ideally,
> if its your first post, you should pick some humungous format such as BMP. Oh,
> and don't forget to post it to a non-binary group. If you can multi-post it to
> several non-binary groups, so much the better.
> 
> 2. Get in a fight with ABX in .general
> 
> 3. Get in a fight with BDW in .off-topic
> 
> 4. Post a message to .general pointing out how crappy pov is, explaining you
> could write a better program in your sleep if only you knew how to program.
> 
> 
LoL. Oh my, I've got to do 1, 2 and 4 still. Although one could argue 
that 3 hasn't been accomplished yet with satisfaction :)

/Nathan

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