Hi all.  I just found this newsgroup recently and I'm amazed at all the
traffic on it.  It seems that POV-Ray has come a long way form it's
humble beginnings back in '85 or so.  I'm the author of DKBTrace which,
you may know, is the predecessor of POV-Ray.  I offered the DKBTrace
source to the POV-Ray team as a base system and I served on the POV-Ray
team for about two years.

What exciting things are happening these days in the POV-Ray world?  I'm
seeing some amazing things posted on the net.

David Buck
dav### [at] simberoncom

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> I'm the author of DKBTrace which,
> you may know, is the predecessor of POV-Ray.  I offered the DKBTrace
> source to the POV-Ray team as a base system and I served on the POV-Ray
> team for about two years.
>

The Legend Returns! Thank you for your contribution to what has become
an
excellent program and a lot of fun.

> What exciting things are happening these days in the POV-Ray world?  I'm
> seeing some amazing things posted on the net.

If you look back a couple threads you'll find that Intel is going
to be using Povray and Gilles Tran's art work to demonstrate the
Pentium 4.
The Pov-Team is currently working on the next version of official
povray,
and then there's Megapov which is constantly going through new 
exciting experiments.


-- 
Phil
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POV-Ray has developed in many ways. The greatest thing actually is the big
community that started creating patches some years ago. These patches have
been put together tp patched POV versions. The most popular one is Megapov.
It has nice features like photon mapping or iso surfaces.
You can see amazing things at
http://www.irtc.org
My favourite one is still the "wet bird" by Gilles Tran. It's far away from
the reflective sphere over a checkered floor :-)
Nice to see you around here.

All the Best,

Marc

David Buck <dav### [at] simberoncom> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
3A6755CD.920FCBDB@simberon.com...
> Hi all.  I just found this newsgroup recently and I'm amazed at all the
> traffic on it.  It seems that POV-Ray has come a long way form it's
> humble beginnings back in '85 or so.  I'm the author of DKBTrace which,
> you may know, is the predecessor of POV-Ray.  I offered the DKBTrace
> source to the POV-Ray team as a base system and I served on the POV-Ray
> team for about two years.
>
> What exciting things are happening these days in the POV-Ray world?  I'm
> seeing some amazing things posted on the net.
>
> David Buck
> dav### [at] simberoncom
>
>

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This is a great opportunity to thank you for starting this.
Of course I also owe the POV-team a debt of gratitude but it's nice to be able
to thank you in person.

Kind regards,

Remco de Korte
http://www.xs4all.nl/~remcodek/

David Buck wrote:
> 
> Hi all.  I just found this newsgroup recently and I'm amazed at all the
> traffic on it.  It seems that POV-Ray has come a long way form it's
> humble beginnings back in '85 or so.  I'm the author of DKBTrace which,
> you may know, is the predecessor of POV-Ray.  I offered the DKBTrace
> source to the POV-Ray team as a base system and I served on the POV-Ray
> team for about two years.
> 
> What exciting things are happening these days in the POV-Ray world?  I'm
> seeing some amazing things posted on the net.
> 
> David Buck
> dav### [at] simberoncom

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The legend returns, it is the prophecy......


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In article <3A6755CD.920FCBDB@simberon.com>, David Buck 
<dav### [at] simberoncom> wrote:

> Hi all.  I just found this newsgroup recently and I'm amazed at all the
> traffic on it.  It seems that POV-Ray has come a long way form it's
> humble beginnings back in '85 or so.  I'm the author of DKBTrace which,
> you may know, is the predecessor of POV-Ray.  I offered the DKBTrace
> source to the POV-Ray team as a base system and I served on the POV-Ray
> team for about two years.
> 
> What exciting things are happening these days in the POV-Ray world?  I'm
> seeing some amazing things posted on the net.

Well, probably the first would be MegaPOV, which contains most of the 
third party patches people have written:
http://nathan.kopp.com/patched.htm

Some of the more interesting things: isosurfaces described by functions 
you specify in the scene file, photon mapping for realistic refractive 
and reflective caustics, angle-dependant reflection...

A page with demo images of most of the patches is here:
http://users.skynet.be/smellenbergh/demo.html

There are also patches for object tesselation and deformation in 
progress, a possible OpenGL rendering patch, a particle system patch 
(http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/images/particleFountain.jpg), and 
several other things...I'm currently working on a "portal" pigment. 
(Basically, rays hit the pigment and stop, and reappear from somewhere 
else going in a different direction...at least that's what the user 
sees. Like a portal from one area to another.)

-- 
Christopher James Huff
Personal: chr### [at] maccom, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg, http://tag.povray.org/

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<kneels on one knee, puts right arm across chest, bows head> Master... It is
an honor to see you here. <stands up, waves at other POVers> Praise the
Buck! Hail David! Hail David! Wooo! :)

I am Anthony Bennett, your humble servant, and creator of the MegaPOV
firey-M icon. A small contribution, but a contribution nonetheless...

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> The Legend Returns! Thank you for your contribution to what has become
> an
> excellent program and a lot of fun.

Huh?  It's always been those two things :)

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http://come.to/the.zone

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David Buck wrote in message <3A6755CD.920FCBDB@simberon.com>...
>What exciting things are happening these days in the POV-Ray world?  I'm
>seeing some amazing things posted on the net.

In addition to the minor changes mentioned by others, the syntax for a
chrome sphere over a checkered plane has gotten simpler.


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Mark

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"Remco de Korte" <rem### [at] onwijscom> wrote in message
news:3A675C56.A4C09C05@onwijs.com...
> This is a great opportunity to thank you for starting this.
> Of course I also owe the POV-team a debt of gratitude but it's nice to be
able
> to thank you in person.

Likewise.
Without a beginning there is nothing and the name David K. Buck is certainly
immortalized as the start of POV-Ray Trace.
It's been a great 8 years for me.
The changes have been no less than incredible since my first sight of version
2.0 (I even used v. 1.0 a few times) watching a low res. render placing pixel
by pixel onto a screen.  If there's one constant in POV it would be growth and
the many people using it.  That was evidenced at CompuServe back in the early
1990's.

Bob H.

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