Hi.

I am making herewith the request to use some slogan like the following one, 
in order to show the spirit of the render software POV-Ray (will become 20 
years old in 2009!!!):

"Virtual Reality, the final frontier. These are the calculations of the 
raytracer POV-Ray. Its nineteen-year mission: To explore virtual new worlds. 
To seek out virtual life and virtual art. To boldly go where no render 
program has gone before." That should be displayed inside the ABOUT box.

ORIGINAL
Starship Enterprise (Star Trek):
"Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship 
Enterprise. Its five-year mission: To explore strange new worlds. To seek 
out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone
before."

Yes, I mean it. I am not even a "trekkie", but I like the spirit of the 
entire series (not their special effects or starship designs). It was Star 
Trek, where there was the first kiss between white and black on celluloid. 
And it seems, Star Trek has some deeper influence. Yesterday and today. And 
that all is, why I have no problem to adapt a slogan quite similar to 
theirs. POV-Ray IS all about new worlds (the virtual ones). Through POV-Ray 
scenes, we express ourselfs in new ways, and might have a tool to connect to 
the minds (and fantasies) of others.

And I am sure, when the first kiss between a human and an alien happens, 
David Kirk Buck, Aaron Collins or Christopher Cason or any other of the 
long-eared, deeply logically thinking POV programmers will appear from 
behind some corner, and try to teach the alien the way how to use POV-Ray...

Sven

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