Sven Littkowski wrote:
> I am making herewith the request to use some slogan like the following one, 
> in order to show the spirit of the render software POV-Ray (will become 20 
> years old in 2009!!!):
> 
> "Virtual Reality, the final frontier. These are the calculations of the 
> raytracer POV-Ray. Its nineteen-year mission: To explore virtual new worlds. 
> To seek out virtual life and virtual art. To boldly go where no render 
> program has gone before." That should be displayed inside the ABOUT box.

Nice! :)  I find the idea lovely! :)

POV-Ray and Star Trek are geek things, after all!  And both have endured 
long lives.

> It was Star 
> Trek, where there was the first kiss between white and black on celluloid. 

yeah, shame they were quite a bit old by the time.  But I'm sure Captain 
Kirk and Uhura have had some affair in their prime... ;)

> And I am sure, when the first kiss between a human and an alien happens, 
> David Kirk Buck, Aaron Collins or Christopher Cason or any other of the 
> long-eared, deeply logically thinking POV programmers will appear from 
> behind some corner, and try to teach the alien the way how to use POV-Ray...

You know you've been raytracing too long when povray developers are 
comparable to Vulcans... ;)

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