I think there was also a povray 1.0 or something like that.

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Warp wrote:
> 
>   I think there was also a povray 1.0 or something like that.
> 

Sorry, but i'm not that old ;-)

<nostalgic>
IIRC at that time i was using a 286 with monochrome graphics ... and was just
doing my first steps with the turbo pascal graphics mode ...

BTW, have you ever seen Windows 3.0 on a orange monochrome monitor :-)
</nostalgic>

Christoph

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Christoph Hormann wrote:

> No complete list, but:
> 
> The 3.1 subversions are described in:
> 
> http://www.povray.org/ftp/pub/povray/Official/revision.txt

I try to be subversive whenver possible. ;-)

-Mark Gordon

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Christoph Hormann wrote:

> <nostalgic>
> IIRC at that time i was using a 286 with monochrome graphics ... and was just
> doing my first steps with the turbo pascal graphics mode ...
> 
> BTW, have you ever seen Windows 3.0 on a orange monochrome monitor :-)
> </nostalgic>

Does a "grey-scale" amber monitor count?

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"Greg M. Johnson" <gre### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote in message
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| Can someone give me a list of all of the official ancestors and bastard
| children of Pov 3.1g?

Let's see now, I know these:

DKBTrace Ray-Tracer 1.2
DKBTrace Ray-Tracer 2.0
DKBTrace Ray-Tracer 2.05
DKBTrace Ray-Tracer 2.11
DKBTrace Ray-Tracer 2.12
(STAR, myth or legend?  Not sure a distribution with that name ever occured)
POV-Ray Tracer 0.5
POV-Ray Tracer 1.0
POV-Ray Tracer 2.0
POV-Ray Tracer 2.1
POV-Ray Tracer 2.2
POV-Ray Tracer 3.0
POV-Ray Tracer 3.01
POV-Ray Tracer 3.02
POV-Ray Tracer 3.1
POV-Ray Tracer 3.1a
POV-Ray Tracer 3.1b
POV-Ray Tracer 3.1c
POV-Ray Tracer 3.1d
POV-Ray Tracer 3.1e
POV-Ray Tracer 3.1f
POV-Ray Tracer 3.1g
Super Patch (version #? Ron Parker's)
MegaPOV 0.1
MegaPOV 0.2
MegaPOV 0.3 (not positive of these, Nathan will know)
MegaPOV 0.4
MegaPOV 0.5
MegaPOV 0.5a

Bob

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Christoph Hormann wrote:

> BTW, have you ever seen Windows 3.0 on a orange monochrome monitor :-)
> </nostalgic>

I have never seen that colour reproduced on any non-monochrome monitor, and it's
a shame. That shade of gold has always been one of my all time favourites.

I think the problem is that those monitors produced gold purely, while modern
monitors try to cobble something together from rgb.

I set my xterms at work to gold on black, for nostalgia's sake.


Simon

PS: I ran Windows 2.0 on my gold monitor.

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On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 00:01:25 -0300, Simon de Vet wrote:
>
>
>Christoph Hormann wrote:
>
>> BTW, have you ever seen Windows 3.0 on a orange monochrome monitor :-)
>> </nostalgic>
>
>I have never seen that colour reproduced on any non-monochrome monitor, and it's
>a shame. That shade of gold has always been one of my all time favourites.

I still use one, for a debugging monitor.  Shame you can't use one with an
AGP card, but Intel broke that.

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On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 08:32:36 -0400 "Greg M. Johnson"
<gre### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote:

>Can someone give me a list of all of the official ancestors and (unofficial)
>children of Pov 3.1g?  (This info will be used as part of the "10 Best
>CD" collection.

  Hi, Greg. Along with Bob's extensive list I add Dieter Bayer's FTPov
(Faster Than POV-Ray), which used his vista and light buffer speed-ups
now incorporated into the official version. It was based on POV-Ray v2.2
and distributed on CompuServe around 1993 or 1994.

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Bob Hughes wrote:

> (STAR, myth or legend?  Not sure a distribution with that name ever occured)

<<
Version 0.02 BETA Release 7/29/91 (as STAR-Light)
----------------------------------
 First version is still basically DKBTrace 2.12 with a few new features.
 
 - Materials mapping added by Drew Wells.(see matmap.dat)
 - ONION & LEOPARD textures added by Scott Taylor.
 - Time to trace display added by Bill Pulver.
 - Grayscale display (+g) for IBM-PC's added by Scott Taylor.
 - Small wood texture bug fixed to create true cylinders.
 - Verbose now displays more info including file being traced.
 - Option +vO added to enable old-style terse verbose.
 - Texture.c broken into smaller modules.
 - PAINTED1, 2, & 3 added for developers.
 - BUMPY1, 2, & 3 added for developers.
>>

(excerpt from "history.doc", accompanying PV-Ray 0.5 beta package)

The "STAR-Light" name was dropped because of possible problems with
another software bearing that name.

And, until 1.0, it was "PV-Ray" (without an O)

Fabien.

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"Fabien Mosen" <fab### [at] skynetbe> wrote in message
news:39AB83E2.99A84B5D@skynet.be...
| Bob Hughes wrote:
|
| > (STAR, myth or legend?  Not sure a distribution with that name ever
occured)
|
| Version 0.02 BETA Release 7/29/91 (as STAR-Light)

----snipped----

| The "STAR-Light" name was dropped because of possible problems with
| another software bearing that name.
|
| And, until 1.0, it was "PV-Ray" (without an O)

Great to know.  Thanks Fabien, I wondered about the possibility of a
different naming of the earlier POV-Ray versions but I checked up on it in
each of their Docs before posting.  And I never say "Tracer" but say "Trace"
and am in eror to do so apparently.  I don't have the version 0.5 so
couldn't check.

Bob

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