stephen parkinson wrote:
> stephen parkinson wrote:
> 
>> Paul Bourke wrote:
>>
>>> Time to blow the dust from those old pixels and wake up some of those
>>> idle electrons....the next POVRay competition is now open, see
>>>    http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/povss/
>>>
>>> Thanks to all the suggestions since the last fractal contest. Over all
>>> there were about 10 distinct ideas for new competitions. In choosing a
>>> new theme I rated the choices on a new "principles" (no particular 
>>> order)
>>> 1. Maximise the appeal to as wide as possible group within the POVRay 
>>> community.
>>> 2. Maximise the appeal of the results to the wider non-POVRay audience.
>>> 3. Maximise the opportunity to show off POVRay and raytracing in 
>>> general. 4. Avoid options that would significantly disadvantage 
>>> anyone without
>>>    a high end computer.
>>> 5. Avoid choices that, for various reasons, would be hard to manage 
>>> as a    competition.
>>> Last but not least, I need to have some personal interest/motivation. 
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> My preferred options for future competitions boiled down to the 
>>> following
>>> 1. Limited geometry, eg: use no more than 10 primitives from sphere, 
>>> box, ....
>>> 2. Scene based on a single versatile primitive.
>>> 3. Render showing of optics.....details to be decided.
>>>
>>> So, I've chosen (2) this time around because it interests me and the
>>> supershape is somewhat topical with Genicap offering plugs for 
>>> Illustrator
>>>    http://www.genicap.com/tech_super.html
>>> (2d only) and further tools in the pipeline for 3D packages.
>>>    http://www.genicap.com/gallery/3d_illustration.html
>>>
>>> Happy rendering.
>>
>>
>>
>> which povray version are we using please ?
>>
>> param.inc don't seem to exist on my box, povray-3.5c, debian/libranet 
>> somewhere near unstable
>>
>> stephen
> 
> 
> ignore me, NEXT time reading the flaming instructions or somesuch phrase
> 
> stephen
> 
> currently battling include paths in pov-mode.el and byte-compiling :-)

you don't happen to know how to add a user path to the include list in 
pov-mode ??

stephen

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