On 10-10-2014 18:41, Stephen wrote:
> On 10/10/2014 16:56, clipka wrote:
>> Am 10.10.2014 16:23, schrieb jhu:
>>> You kids and your imaptience. Just wait a week. It should be done by
>>> then.
>>> That's what we did back in the day, and we liked it!
>>
>> Yup. We were absolutely thrilled by the fact that we were unable to use
>> the computer for anything else while the raytracer was running. And we
>> greeted every new pixel with a loud cheer!
>>
>
> It was therapeutic watching that line of pixels being drawn across the
> screen.
>
Aaahhh... those good old times! Amiga 1000 drawing a mandelbrot 
fractal... a few pixels per hour... :-)

Thomas

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On 10/10/2014 18:29, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> Aaahhh... those good old times! Amiga 1000 drawing a mandelbrot
> fractal... a few pixels per hour... :-)

I had Fractint on an "Intel inside" Win 95 m/c

Then the Stone Soup Group mentioned PovRay.

Lost, lost, my life in tatters waiting for the next rendering. :-)

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     Stephen

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> > It was therapeutic watching that line of pixels being drawn across the
> > screen.

lol, I remember watching TEXT getting written across the (television) screen of
my VIC-20 as characters were being downloaded over a 300 baud modem from a BBS.
It was so slow that they used to have animations based on control-chracters.

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Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:

>
> It was therapeutic watching that line of pixels being drawn across the
> screen.
>
> --
>
> Regards
>      Stephen

Yes, it was just a tad less boring than watching paint dry.

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On 10/10/2014 21:42, jhu wrote:
> Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
>
>>
>> It was therapeutic watching that line of pixels being drawn across the
>> screen.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Regards
>>       Stephen
>
> Yes, it was just a tad less boring than watching paint dry.
>

Depends what you are smoking. ;-)

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     Stephen

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On 10/10/2014 21:07, Bald Eagle wrote:
>
>>> It was therapeutic watching that line of pixels being drawn across the
>>> screen.
>
> lol, I remember watching TEXT getting written across the (television) screen of
> my VIC-20 as characters were being downloaded over a 300 baud modem from a BBS.
> It was so slow that they used to have animations based on control-chracters.
>
>
>
That was the high speed for acoustic couplers. :=P


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     Stephen

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Am 10.10.2014 23:28, schrieb Stephen:
> On 10/10/2014 21:42, jhu wrote:
>> Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> It was therapeutic watching that line of pixels being drawn across the
>>> screen.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>       Stephen
>>
>> Yes, it was just a tad less boring than watching paint dry.
>>
>
> Depends what you are smoking. ;-)

... or what solvent the drying paint is based on ;-)

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clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:

> >> Yes, it was just a tad less boring than watching paint dry.
> >
> > Depends what you are smoking. ;-)
>
> ... or what solvent the drying paint is based on ;-)

I had the pleasure (?) of discovering a can of the really good methylene
chloride / dichloromethane paint stripper for a job I was doing.  It was fun to
watch that stuff sink right into the several layers of paint - some of which
surely must have been old lead carbonate / linseed oil - and watching it swell
and crinkle up like a prune.  You just about wipe it off after that with a paper
towel.

A different job - we had to use "BIN" to prime some places that had the sap from
pine knots bleeding through, old cigarette tar or kitchen grease, or mold - and
the primary cosolvent used in that is ethanol.  Painting with that inside for
several hours is ... interesting.

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"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> > > It was therapeutic watching that line of pixels being drawn across the
> > > screen.
>
> lol, I remember watching TEXT getting written across the (television) screen of
> my VIC-20 as characters were being downloaded over a 300 baud modem from a BBS.
> It was so slow that they used to have animations based on control-chracters.

You're starting to remind me of my high-speed Internet connection.  Well, the
ISP sez that it's high speed.  I'm getting less than 2% of the advertized speed.

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On 11-10-2014 4:34, Bald Eagle wrote:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>
>>>> Yes, it was just a tad less boring than watching paint dry.
>>>
>>> Depends what you are smoking. ;-)
>>
>> ... or what solvent the drying paint is based on ;-)
>
> I had the pleasure (?) of discovering a can of the really good methylene
> chloride / dichloromethane paint stripper for a job I was doing.  It was fun to
> watch that stuff sink right into the several layers of paint - some of which
> surely must have been old lead carbonate / linseed oil - and watching it swell
> and crinkle up like a prune.  You just about wipe it off after that with a paper
> towel.
>
> A different job - we had to use "BIN" to prime some places that had the sap from
> pine knots bleeding through, old cigarette tar or kitchen grease, or mold - and
> the primary cosolvent used in that is ethanol.  Painting with that inside for
> several hours is ... interesting.
>

I had some exposure to trichloroethylene while repairing an old car (2CV 
to be precise)...

Thomas

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