> Hi(gh)!
>
> Currently I'm trying to convince a friend of POV-Ray's outstanding
> landscape rendering capabilities by sending him examples from my private
> p.b.i image collection. While browsing through these currently about
> 18,500 images stored on my harddisk since September 2000 when I first
> hit p.b.i, I started to think whether it would be reasonable to have all
> these images stored in a publicly accessible database on povray.org...
> images would be categorized by artist, publication date, graphic format,
> size, total number of pixels, x-y ratio, number of colours, color
> distribution and, mostly important a wide range of (possibly
> hierarchically organized) keywords describing image contents and used
> POV-Ray features and techniques. The images also would be logically
> connected to their scene scripts, as far as available.
>
> What do you think about such an idea?

The idea is certainly interesting but it represents a lot of work to 
index and build a relational database like that, if I remember correctly 
my past implications with such a project. However, nowadays many things 
can be automated though.

Thomas

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