You know you've been raytracing too long when you throw away 3D Studio MAX
because by default it uses a scan line render...

or

You know you've been raytracing too long when you start compiling surveys
about trivial raytracing information...

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Lance.


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When someone asks you your favourite colour and you think

<0.0, 1.0, 0.85>

...actually I did try to explain to them, but I didn't get very far.

yossarian

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When you use CDs as coffee coasters...

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Lance.


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Lance Birch wrote in message <369fe55a.0@news.povray.org>...
>When you use CDs as coffee coasters...


I'm doing that :-) but I don't think it has something to do with my
raytracing. More with the fact that with a MSDN subscription you get *loads*
of new CDs every few months or so, replacing the old ones. So what to do
with them? You can't sell them, the content is obsolete, ...
I have even supplied my parents with a nice set of CDs and my guests get the
choice if they want to have their drinks from NT 3.51, Korean version or
rather Windows 95 Hebrew :-)

Greetings,
Johannes.

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There are lots of things you can do with CD's. I'm compiling a list for the
traditional no good reason at this site :

http://www.spiritone.com/~english/humour/aolcd.html

happy tracing.

Josh
eng### [at] spiritonecom

Johannes Hubert wrote:

> Lance Birch wrote in message <369fe55a.0@news.povray.org>...
> >When you use CDs as coffee coasters...
>
> I'm doing that :-) but I don't think it has something to do with my
> raytracing. More with the fact that with a MSDN subscription you get *loads*
> of new CDs every few months or so, replacing the old ones. So what to do
> with them? You can't sell them, the content is obsolete, ...
> I have even supplied my parents with a nice set of CDs and my guests get the
> choice if they want to have their drinks from NT 3.51, Korean version or
> rather Windows 95 Hebrew :-)
>
> Greetings,
> Johannes.

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OK, here are some more I made up... You know you've been raytracing too long
when...

You ask your school if you can use their network as a render farm at night.

You reject job offers that don't contain "professional raytracer" in their
titles.

You decide to try and max out your system by running as many instances of
POV-Ray as you possibly can.

Your monitor has a burn-in of a Gilles Tran artwork...

You network render with your brain...

Your CD-ROM drive died because you accessed the "Official POV-Ray CD-ROM"
too much.

Even your text documents are saved in Targa...

Your motherboard can't keep up with your processor.

Someone yells out "You're pov!!!" and you thank them for the compliment.

You pour liquid nitrogen on your processor in the hope that cooling it will
make it run faster.

At night you're awake and in daylight you sleep.

You're stuck in a recursive loop...

People no longer understand you because you talk in binary.

You adore "pin-face toys" because they remind you of un-smoothed
heightfields.

You cryogenically freeze your computer.

Your Will contains a sentence that reads "All my POV Scripts are donated to
the good people at povray.general"

You hate dropping mirrors because you realise that you couldn't simulate the
dynamics with POV-Ray.

You make your friends interactive CD-ROMs for their birthdays.

Riven is the only game you own.

The average room temperature is around 41 degrees celcius because your
computer produces so much heat.

You express emotions as colors.

The tips of your fingers have the slightest indentations of keys on them.

You've modelled your desk...

You've fabricated a 1-micron path microchip.

You see "POV" in a film script and you laugh.

Seven words in not enough to describe a taste to someone.

Time means nothing to you and dying just means "the inablility to render".

Someone asks you for your opinion on the frames they've chosen for their
glasses and all you can comment on is the ior of the lens.

Your friends don't think a fractal is something obscene.

Taking your computer to school is the only way to show that fantastic
presentation because the network can't retain the transfer rate.

Your computer contains *3* Pentium II processors!!!

There are no fingerprints on your fingers!

You can state the Cartesian co-ordinates of any MAX Toolbar button.

You've changed your operating system to recognise EXE's by a 2 byte header
of "DB" instead of "MZ" ;-)

You learn to lucid dream just so you can render while you're asleep...

You rock back and forward hugging yourself under your desk because there was
a blackout and your computer stopped rendering...


And of course...

You know you've been raytracing too long when you've had to destroy your
computer after your failed attempt at a automatic art generating program
became self-aware...

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I had once a very bad dream:
  I was in a room with a dozen Pentium II 400MHz connected as a renderfarm
and with a T1 line to a couple of Cray T3E's with hundreds of processors
and gigabytes of memory. On the computer in front of me there was the
povray editor ready to be used. But I was tied to the chair and unable
to do anything!
  I awakened screming and sweating!

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main(i){char*_="BdsyFBThhHFBThhHFRz]NFTITQF|DJIFHQhhF";while(i=
*_++)for(;i>1;printf("%s",i-70?i&1?"[]":" ":(i=0,"\n")),i/=2);} /*- Warp. -*/

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That's horrible!

Nieminen Mika wrote:
> 
>   I had once a very bad dream:
>   I was in a room with a dozen Pentium II 400MHz connected as a renderfarm
> and with a T1 line to a couple of Cray T3E's with hundreds of processors
> and gigabytes of memory. On the computer in front of me there was the
> povray editor ready to be used. But I was tied to the chair and unable
> to do anything!
>   I awakened screming and sweating!
> 
> --
> main(i){char*_="BdsyFBThhHFBThhHFRz]NFTITQF|DJIFHQhhF";while(i=
> *_++)for(;i>1;printf("%s",i-70?i&1?"[]":" ":(i=0,"\n")),i/=2);} /*- Warp. -*/

-- 
 omniVERSE: beyond the universe
  http://members.aol.com/inversez/POVring.htm
=Bob

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Excerpts of ones I found most familiar to me:
 
> You decide to try and max out your system by running as many instances of
> POV-Ray as you possibly can.
Had to try this at least once.

> At night you're awake and in daylight you sleep.
Yep.
 
> You adore "pin-face toys" because they remind you of un-smoothed
> heightfields.
What else?
 
> Your Will contains a sentence that reads "All my POV Scripts are donated to
> the good people at povray.general"
Of course!
 
> Time means nothing to you and dying just means "the inablility to render".
Certainly.

> You rock back and forward hugging yourself under your desk because there was
> a blackout and your computer stopped rendering...
Now this I don't do, but it might be a good idea. I tend to damage
things easily instead.
 
> --
> Lance.
> 

And one of my own (or a repeat by now):

The most perplexing thing in the world turns out not to be "What is God
and the universe?", but "Why can't I ray trace realisticly enough?".

-- 
 omniVERSE: beyond the universe
  http://members.aol.com/inversez/POVring.htm
=Bob

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Excerpts of ones I found most familiar to me:
 
> You decide to try and max out your system by running as many instances of
> POV-Ray as you possibly can.
Had to try this at least once.

> At night you're awake and in daylight you sleep.
Yep.
 
> You adore "pin-face toys" because they remind you of un-smoothed
> heightfields.
What else?
 
> Your Will contains a sentence that reads "All my POV Scripts are donated to
> the good people at povray.general"
Of course!
 
> Time means nothing to you and dying just means "the inablility to render".
Certainly.

> You rock back and forward hugging yourself under your desk because there was
> a blackout and your computer stopped rendering...
Now this I don't do, but it might be a good idea. I tend to damage
things easily instead.
 
> --
> Lance.
> 

And one of my own (or a repeat by now):

The most perplexing thing in the world turns out not to be "What is God
and the universe?", but "Why can't I ray trace realisticly enough?".

-- 
 omniVERSE: beyond the universe
  http://members.aol.com/inversez/POVring.htm
=Bob

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