POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Blast from the past. : Re: Blast from the past. Server Time
3 Jul 2024 00:02:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Blast from the past.  
From: FractRacer
Date: 9 Feb 2015 17:48:15
Message: <54d9392f@news.povray.org>

> "buke9" <bbu### [at] twccom> wrote:
>> Found some Zip disks and I had a parallel drive that was dead. Found a usb
>> one on Ebay to find out what was on the discs. This is the output of the
>> file that I was looking for. The fossil was made in Form . The height fields
>> in Gforge (original lost ) . The drawing is a scan done by me. Most was
>> modeled in Moray. The pencil was a sample from PV Ray .5 beta (yes Povray
>> before it was Povray) . I can't believe I kept the file (It is from 1998).
>> I've been away from Pov for sometime but getting back to it . Just thought I
>> would share. Please don't laugh it was almost 20 years ago.
>> Buke
>
> This is a very nice image indeed. A nice model of a snail like creature. I have
> some experience with that by my own.
>
> I would guess that it is an old image and not a modern rerendering of an old
> scene file. The steam above the cup let me assume this, since it is not very
> easy to convert the old halo-syntax into the media-syntax used now. But I'm
> unaware of the exact date this switch was taken in POV.
>
> If you find other old treasures on your ZIP-disks feel free to share them.
>
> Best regards,
> Michael
>
I will disappoint you, if you look at the binary file of the image, you 
will see the uberpov 3.7 signature, and the date of the render: 2015-02-08.

Please don't shoot me!

-- 
Lionel
<b>Do not judge my words, judge my actions.</b>

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