"David Buck" <dav### [at] simberoncom> schreef in bericht 
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> It's lucky that I still monitor this group :-)
>
> Bozo was indeed in DKBTrace.  In fact, it was one of the first procedural 
> textures to be implemented in DKBTrace.  I wasn't, however, responsible 
> for the name.  It came from a technical paper presented at SIGGRAPH '84 by 
> Ken Perlin called "An Image Synthesizer".  He showed a torus with a bozo 
> texture on it.
>
> That paper served as a huge inspiration for me to create the original 
> textures in DKBTrace and later POVRay.
>
> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=325247
> http://luthuli.cs.uiuc.edu/~daf/courses/ComputerGraphics/Week8/Shading.pdf
>

Nice, David. This little piece of info should go into some kind of 
Historical Repository for POV-Ray, under the chapter "Foundations & Sources" 
:-)

Thomas

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