Op 5-1-2024 om 16:05 schreef Bald Eagle:
> Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> 
>> RSOCP? Those have fallen a bit into disuse of late, I am afraid... ;-)
> 
> They have, perhaps only because everyone here has been around for a while, and
> uses their precious round tuits to chip away at the megalithic To Do list, and
> it's exponentially expanding tangential side-projects.
> 
Oh yes indeed :-/
...and, not forgetting, the years slowly accumulating upon one's 
shoulders...

> It might be worth suggesting a renaissance of the time-honored tradition of
> including POV-Ray / raytracing Easter eggs in scenes just to keep a few of those
> things in current scenes, and challenge the authors' creativity with regard to
> composition, placement, integration, and interpretation of Ye Olde RSOCP.
> 
> Heck, there's even the ole' Code Golf style challenge of how small of a scene
> can you write to make it happen.
> 
> Or code pong, or a scene circle, where the scene starts with one author, and
> gets handed off to the next author to add their contribution to the overall
> scene.
> 
There were indeed.

> WRT Ricky's current scene, he has an entirely reflective city, so maybe he could
> invert the concept and have a checkered sphere, or something like a wireframe
> globe, such as seems popular to have in front of tall, shiny office buildings.
> 
> I had been hunting down ... something or other ... and was reminded that
> Blender, Maya, Grasshopper, and other modelers/renderers had some form of
> default test object, and felt that POV-Ray ought to have something slightly more
> modern and similar - for no other reason than if it popped up in an image
> search, it might arouse the curiosity of CG enthusiasts who might not yet have
> discovered our beloved raytracer.
> 
> It's not reflective, so .... here's a NRSOCP from late November:
> 

Aaah! This is a really nice one, Bill. I love it.

-- 
Thomas

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