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6 Sep 2024 07:15:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: In the beginning...  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 4 Feb 2009 14:00:57
Message: <4989e5e9@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:
> Invisible escreveu:
>> "And DKB said, 'let there be light', and there was light, and it did 
>> approximate Maxwell's equations to first order."
> 
> And the world was formless and void, so He hacked away a scripting 
> language and with it devised beautiful isosurface, recursive forms to 
> nature.

It's interesting... Looking at the POV-Ray article on Wikipedia, under 
"features", the first item is not physically-correct reflections, or 
interdiffuse illumination, or procedural texturing, but "Turing-complete 
scene construction language". o_O

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