On 5 Oct 1999 17:40:02 -0400, Jerome Waters <hjw### [at] whqcsarcom> wrote:

>But in that particular issue of CGW there was mention of POV-Ray, that the
>software was free, and with the URL.

  Hi, Jerome. Was that the issue that had a featured article on radiosity?
They made some errors when they mentioned POV-Ray in that paragraph. First
they referred to it as shareware and then as public domain, neither of which
is accurate. I remember bringing up the issue with Dan Farmer [POV-Team] at
the time but can't recall if I ever sent CGW a correction by e-mail.

  Still, CGW is a nice publication and I've subscribed to it for several
years (did I renew this year??). They cover a lot of movie CG effects, which
is where a lot of my (amateur) interest lies.

-- 
Alan
http://www.povray.org - Home of the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer

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I was made aware of POV by a friend who had an Amiga and was
using Imagine and Real3D, he told me that there was a
package for the PC that could do Ray Tracing, he also said
that you sometimes get these packages on the front of
magazines.  I bought the magazines for ages but never saw
POV mentioned.  The magazine disappeared from the shops so I
didn't bother any more.  

Then years later I got a new PC and an internet account, I
did a quick search somewhere for shareware and POV, and
BINGO there was a whole site dedicated to it.  The rest is
"time spent ray tracing while real life, family, friends and
my career all go to rack and ruin". 

Buckaroo Bill wrote:
> 
> Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote
> >  I would never have found POV-Ray had someone not posted a raytraced
> > image on a local BBS a few years ago. I got curious about the image and
> > finaly found the software that produced it. The rest is history :)
> 
> So it all started with a search for links? Hmmm...
> 
> I found POV by looking for animation tools. I was doing animated GIFs by
> hand (making money at it too! Short term career that was though) when I
> found a demo of some commercial program. By doing a search for the terms I
> found in the help file (Ray Tracing, CSG, rendering) I found the link to
> povray.org.
> 
>     The rest is mystory.

-- 
Cheers
Steve              email mailto:sjl### [at] ndirectcouk

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