Bob wrote:
> I guess David Buck must know the real answer, but I can't remember if it 
> was in DKB-Trace prior to POV-Ray Trace. Sure seems like it might have 
> been the clown-hair fluff look of it that got it this name, but everyone 
> probably mixed that up (like me) thinking it was about the hair and not 
> some other attribute (if any, such as "silly" as was already mentioned).
> 
> Bob

It's lucky that I still monitor this group :-)

Bozo was indeed in DKBTrace.  In fact, it was one of the first 
procedural textures to be implemented in DKBTrace.  I wasn't, however, 
responsible for the name.  It came from a technical paper presented at 
SIGGRAPH '84 by Ken Perlin called "An Image Synthesizer".  He showed a 
torus with a bozo texture on it.

That paper served as a huge inspiration for me to create the original 
textures in DKBTrace and later POVRay.

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=325247
http://luthuli.cs.uiuc.edu/~daf/courses/ComputerGraphics/Week8/Shading.pdf

David Buck

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