POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : 25 years of POVRay : Re: 25 years of POVRay Server Time
18 May 2024 21:32:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 25 years of POVRay  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 6 Nov 2016 02:55:33
Message: <581ee1f5$1@news.povray.org>
On 6-11-2016 2:25, David Buck wrote:
> On 2016-11-05 3:51 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> This is my oldest surviving image rendered with POV-Ray, in 1997...
>>
>> I suddenly become aware of some little progress. ;-)
>>
>
> Here's an image rendered by DKBTrace before it became POVRay.  It was
> modeled by Rick Demers at Carleton University.  He didn't quite get the
> positioning right on the top of the pillars but the image was
> nonetheless stunning when he created it.  It's called "roman".  It shows
> the marble texture we had available at that time.
>
> Enjoy.
>
>
Oh! Yes! This is quintessential Ray Tracing indeed! It were images like 
this that got me interested in the first place, also influenced by the 
mythical Amiga which I bought in 1986.

-- 
Thomas


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