hi mitchell,

i imagine most of the people here are interested, but i'm
not sure that means its financially feasible.  few of the 80,000
people at renderosity have even heard of povray.  near as i
can tell, there aren't any books out on the amapi 3D software
either.  maybe thats another avenue worth exploring.

good luck, miker

> Hi All:
>
> My name is Mitchell Waite and I am the former publisher of RAY TRACING
> CREATIONS, the first (and only) POV Ray specific book.
>
> With all the fantastic new improvements in POV Ray I am thinking about
> publishing a new title on POV Ray and I was wondering what the interest
> level is.
>
> Also I am looking for potential writers and contributors. Please feel free
> to email me privately as well as let the group know how you feel about
this
> idea.
>
> You can see the books I published at www.mitchwaite.com Click on the Books
> menu item.
>
> thanks,
>
> Mitchell Waite
> mit### [at] mitchwaitecom
>
>
>

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Wasn't it Mitchell Waite who wrote:
>Hi All:
>
>My name is Mitchell Waite and I am the former publisher of RAY TRACING
>CREATIONS, the first (and only) POV Ray specific book.

Didn't you also publish the other POV ray specific book: "RAY TRACING
WORLDS WITH POV-RAY (The OFFICIAL POV-RAY Group Book)"? It says
"Publsiher Mitchell Waite" in my copy.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure

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Yes that is correct, I did publish Ray Tracing World.

"Mike Williams" <mik### [at] nospamplease> wrote in message
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> Wasn't it Mitchell Waite who wrote:
> >Hi All:
> >
> >My name is Mitchell Waite and I am the former publisher of RAY TRACING
> >CREATIONS, the first (and only) POV Ray specific book.
>
> Didn't you also publish the other POV ray specific book: "RAY TRACING
> WORLDS WITH POV-RAY (The OFFICIAL POV-RAY Group Book)"? It says
> "Publsiher Mitchell Waite" in my copy.
>
> --
> Mike Williams
> Gentleman of Leisure

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My introduction to 3D computer graphics was your
Image Lab book. It is interesting to me that you sold
Waite Group in 1996, maybe that is why all those
good computer graphics books disappeared ;-)

Harold


"Mitchell Waite" <mit### [at] dnaicom> wrote in message
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> Hi All:
>
> My name is Mitchell Waite and I am the former publisher of RAY TRACING
> CREATIONS, the first (and only) POV Ray specific book.
>
> With all the fantastic new improvements in POV Ray I am thinking about
> publishing a new title on POV Ray and I was wondering what the interest
> level is.
>
> Also I am looking for potential writers and contributors. Please feel free
> to email me privately as well as let the group know how you feel about
this
> idea.
>
> You can see the books I published at www.mitchwaite.com Click on the Books
> menu item.
>
> thanks,
>
> Mitchell Waite
> mit### [at] mitchwaitecom
>
>
>

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Harold:

That is exactly why those books disappeared. Macmillan aka Simon and
Schuster who I sold to wanted to focus on big thick books on Java and C++
and so on. I was not happy about that, it was one of those hidden agendas.
That is why I want to get back in, to bring those great books like Image Lab
back. I have received a good deal of email from prospective contributors and
I plan to write to all of them shortly with more information

Mitch


"Harold Baize" <bai### [at] itsaucsfedu> wrote in message
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>
> My introduction to 3D computer graphics was your
> Image Lab book. It is interesting to me that you sold
> Waite Group in 1996, maybe that is why all those
> good computer graphics books disappeared ;-)
>
> Harold
>
>
> "Mitchell Waite" <mit### [at] dnaicom> wrote in message
> news:3c3a9a4b$1@news.povray.org...
> > Hi All:
> >
> > My name is Mitchell Waite and I am the former publisher of RAY TRACING
> > CREATIONS, the first (and only) POV Ray specific book.
> >
> > With all the fantastic new improvements in POV Ray I am thinking about
> > publishing a new title on POV Ray and I was wondering what the interest
> > level is.
> >
> > Also I am looking for potential writers and contributors. Please feel
free
> > to email me privately as well as let the group know how you feel about
> this
> > idea.
> >
> > You can see the books I published at www.mitchwaite.com Click on the
Books
> > menu item.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Mitchell Waite
> > mit### [at] mitchwaitecom
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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There is a book project going on right now. Development is a little
slow, but the webiste for our book project is http://www.povworld.de/book/

The current idea is an extended and illustrated user documentation as
well as specific tasks in POV-Ray.

Josh English
eng### [at] spiritonecom
http://www.spiritone.com/~english

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I've tried to contract the poeple working on that project to coordinate but
they are not answering my emails.
I'd appreciate if you could find out why.

thanks

Mitch

"Josh English" <eng### [at] spiritonecom> wrote in message
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> There is a book project going on right now. Development is a little
> slow, but the webiste for our book project is http://www.povworld.de/book/
>
> The current idea is an extended and illustrated user documentation as
> well as specific tasks in POV-Ray.
>
> Josh English
> eng### [at] spiritonecom
> http://www.spiritone.com/~english

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Intrest level = high.  very very very high.

Mitchell Waite wrote:
> 
> Hi All:
> 
> My name is Mitchell Waite and I am the former publisher of RAY TRACING
> CREATIONS, the first (and only) POV Ray specific book.
> 
> With all the fantastic new improvements in POV Ray I am thinking about
> publishing a new title on POV Ray and I was wondering what the interest
> level is.
> 
> Also I am looking for potential writers and contributors. Please feel free
> to email me privately as well as let the group know how you feel about this
> idea.
> 
> You can see the books I published at www.mitchwaite.com Click on the Books
> menu item.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Mitchell Waite
> mit### [at] mitchwaitecom

-- 
Oliver Wood
University Of Durham

http://www.dur.ac.uk/o.e.wood/

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"Mitchell Waite" <mit### [at] dnaicom> wrote in message
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<snip>

While, of course, I would buy such a book, I can't help feeling that a well
organised POV-tutorial website might be a better option....

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In article <3c3f177d@news.povray.org>, "Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> 
wrote:
> While, of course, I would buy such a book, I can't help feeling that 
> a well organised POV-tutorial website might be a better option....

I'd love to see a POV-manual website organized like the PHP web site 
(http://www.php.net/manual/); PHP is the only programming 
language/computer thing that I use for which I never feel the need for a 
written manual, because of that site.

Jerry

-- 
http://www.hoboes.com/jerry/

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