> 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.

You can use Google image search on p.b.i by prefixing your search term with

site:http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/

That allows you to choose date, pixel size, colour, and then even things 
like "find images like this" (which I think mainly looks for the colour 
distribution within the images).

If I use that with my name then it finds (I think) all the images I've 
submitted - plus all the ones I've commented on. Your idea would be 
better than this in some areas (eg rigidly finding images only by a 
certain author or linking to source code) but I wonder whether the huge 
amount of work would be worth it?

Also I don't think any additional permission would be needed from 
authors simply to index the images in a different way. By uploading to 
p.b.i you are accepting that the images will be accessible by the public 
and sites like Google will index them.

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