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On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 07:05:06 -0400, Nick Portelli wrote:
>They never did one for the PC. I have an old book that had polyray.
>Pretty cool. Showed how to do lots of complex animation stuff. In fact
>I had two. An animation book and a raytracing book. I think they were
>both polyray.
I have a copy of "Ray Tracing Creations" by Chris Young and Drew Wells.
It came with a PC floppy that contained POV 2.2 for DOS.
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#macro R(L P)sphere{L F}cylinder{L P F}#end#macro P(V)merge{R(z+a z)R(-z a-z)R(a
-z-z-z a+z)torus{1F clipped_by{plane{a 0}}}translate V}#end#macro Z(a F T)merge{
P(z+a)P(z-a)R(-z-z-x a)pigment{rgbf 1}hollow interior{media{emission 3-T}}}#end
Z(-x-x.2x)camera{location z*-10rotate x*90normal{bumps.02scale.05}}
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Ron Parker wrote:
> I have a copy of "Ray Tracing Creations" by Chris Young and Drew Wells.
> It came with a PC floppy that contained POV 2.2 for DOS.
would that be the one with a dove on the front?
if so - Snap! (or at least, i *had* it...)
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ben paschke wrote:
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> Ron Parker wrote:
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> > I have a copy of "Ray Tracing Creations" by Chris Young and Drew Wells.
> > It came with a PC floppy that contained POV 2.2 for DOS.
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> would that be the one with a dove on the front?
> if so - Snap! (or at least, i *had* it...)
See also - http://members.iquest.net/~cyoung/ray/
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Ken Tyler
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On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 19:47:38 -0700, Ken wrote:
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>ben paschke wrote:
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>> Ron Parker wrote:
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>> > I have a copy of "Ray Tracing Creations" by Chris Young and Drew Wells.
>> > It came with a PC floppy that contained POV 2.2 for DOS.
>>
>> would that be the one with a dove on the front?
>> if so - Snap! (or at least, i *had* it...)
>
>See also - http://members.iquest.net/~cyoung/ray/
Right. Mine is the first one on Chris' page, with the domed city. The one
with the dove was Ray Tracing Worlds, obviously.
It's pretty amazing to look at what was considered the best of the best then
and compare it to any recent IRTC winners...
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#local R=rgb 99;#local P=R-R;#local F=pigment{gradient x}box{0,1pigment{gradient
y pigment_map{[.5F pigment_map{[.3R][.3F color_map{[.15red 99][.15P]}rotate z*45
translate x]}]#local H=pigment{gradient y color_map{[.5P][.5R]}scale 1/3}[.5F
pigment_map{[.3R][.3H][.7H][.7R]}]}}}camera{location.5-3*z}//only my opinions
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Andy Cocker wrote:
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> I saw one about 6 years ago, called (I think) "Adventures in Raytracing".
I have that book- that's the one that got me into all
of this- it had POLYRAY and the reason I got it over
the POV one at the time was because the POLYRAY one
worked without a math co-processor... not a slow way to
trace- a dead STOP way to trace- but it got me hooked
anyway...
> Not sure if it came with POV or Polyray (the latter I think).
yup. And a HORRIBLE modeller programmed in some sort
of BASIC- POVCAD I believe...
The book was rather badly written now that I look at it
and could have used a lot more clarifying points...
-peter
>
> Andy
>
> "Nick Portelli" <por### [at] pilot msuedu> wrote in message
> news:3B308362.87FC2AA1@pilot.msu.edu...
> > They never did one for the PC. I have an old book that had polyray.
> > Pretty cool. Showed how to do lots of complex animation stuff. In fact
> > I had two. An animation book and a raytracing book. I think they were
> > both polyray.
> >
> > "Bob H." wrote:
> > >
> > > Marked read :-)
> > >
> > > Yeah, gee, I left amazon.com a note to e-mail me if that book (the PC
> > > version I figured, didn't know of a Mac one) were ever there. Nothing
> in
> > > the last year heard about it. I'd say it must be a rarity to come
> across
> > > one.
> > > Think I also asked another online bookstore to let me know if they ever
> get
> > > one, I probably should redo that to keep current and active. Except...
> I'm
> > > kind of less interested now, but maybe as it becomes even more
> *historical*
> > > I'll want one for sure.
> > >
> > > Bob H.
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But why bother? I'm not interesting.
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Dearmad wrote:
> Andy Cocker wrote:
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> > I saw one about 6 years ago, called (I think) "Adventures in Raytracing".
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> I have that book- that's the one that got me into all
> of this- it had POLYRAY
Yeah, Polyray is still a whole stack of fun to play with. So much versatility!
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Dearmad wrote:
> yup. And a HORRIBLE modeller programmed in some sort
> of BASIC- POVCAD I believe...
I've still got a Windows version of POVCAD on my hard drive.
It's got a couple of tools I use on occassion such as spline
creation and extruded meshes. It's not for the faint of heart
however and could really do with an update (long since abandoned).
--
Ken Tyler
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"ben paschke" <ben### [at] rspcomau> wrote in message
news:3B313994.4C88C2E3@rsp.com.au...
>
> > Andy Cocker wrote:
> > >
> > > I saw one about 6 years ago, called (I think) "Adventures in
Raytracing".
> >
> > I have that book- that's the one that got me into all
> > of this- it had POLYRAY
>
> Yeah, Polyray is still a whole stack of fun to play with. So much
versatility!
I too first used Polyray, was at the start of my ray tracing experience,
just some months before encountering POV-Ray. The coprocessor thing
mentioned here reminded me that at the time I also didn't have a math
coprocessor but added one in at some point. Must have been to use POV-Ray
and I had forgotten about it until now.
P.S. Yea! I found a used Ray Tracing Creations book for sale online for $15
and grabbed it up.
Bob H.
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Nick Portelli wrote in message <3B308362.87FC2AA1@pilot.msu.edu>...
>They never did one for the PC. I have an old book that had polyray.
>Pretty cool. Showed how to do lots of complex animation stuff. In fact
>I had two. An animation book and a raytracing book. I think they were
>both polyray.
wow-
a book about polyray.
something new to search for.
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"Bob H." wrote:
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> > The coprocessor thing mentioned here reminded me that at the time I also
> didn't >have a math coprocessor but added one in at some point. Must have
> been to >use POV-Ray and I had forgotten about it until now.
I guess my POV experience goes back a little farther. I started out using POV
(Version 1 I believe) on a 286-12 with no math coprocessor. At the time, there
were two versions of POV for DOS, one that required a coprocessor, and one that
didn't. This went away with the release of version 2. BTW, I own a copy of
Raytracing Worlds, and still refer to it from time to time for the wealth of
insights that it offers.
>
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