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wrote:
> This one:
It's project maintained by the team http://www.povray.org/survey1.html
Another one is available at http://www.povworld.org/book/
There is also project maintained by Mitch waite at http://www.mitchwaite.com/
ABX
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disc{z,-z 5#macro O()asc(substr("-+((1*(,1,/.-,*/(,&.323/'1"e,1))*.1-4#declare
e=e-1;#end#local e=26;pigment{#local g=function(_){ceil(_)-_}function#local//X
k=function{pattern{object{sphere_sweep{linear_spline 13#while(e>0)<O(),O()//AB
>.01#end}}}}{k(g(atan2(x,y)),g(ln((y+x)^2+1e-5)),0)}}finish{ambient 1}}//POV35
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bob h wrote:
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> "Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbell net> wrote in message
> news:3C969C13.55A99EAD@pacbell.net...
> >
> > There is no real life. There is only POV-Ray.
>
> Oh, no? I'm managing to have some RL... albeit not anywhere as good a thing
> as POV-Ray life is.
Get well soon!
--
Ken Tyler
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> It's project maintained by the team http://www.povray.org/survey1.html
Yep, this is the page I had the text from.
> Another one is available at http://www.povworld.org/book/
Ah!
I didn't know this url. I did a search on "book" in the povray sites but
didn't fall over this.
Thanks!
> There is also project maintained by Mitch waite at
http://www.mitchwaite.com/
Didn't know this either.
Thanks a lot.
regards
SY
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You are just being too negative. And such speculations can confuse others.
The Povray team never made any announcement to such effect, and it is not
the first time that povray betas have expiration dates.
Maan
news:3c9648ab$1@news.povray.org...
> > <snip>
> >
> > You meant to add a smiley, right? Just checking...
>
> No. Just wondering....
> It would be easy in the current state to release sources of 3.1g but not
of
> >=3.5, let the expiration date in and make a product of it one has to buy.
> Of course something has to be done to get rid of the MegaPov sources.....
>
> It just came into my mind while asking myself whatfor the expiration date
> was made. But maybe I'm simply too negative?
> regards
> SY
>
>
>
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> You are just being too negative. And such speculations can confuse
others.
> The Povray team never made any announcement to such effect, and it is not
> the first time that povray betas have expiration dates.
> Maan
Thank you very much for you clear answer.
I always expect the worst and somtimes I get badly surpised .-)
regards
SY
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On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:00:05 -0500, Dave Dunn wrote:
> Maybe there should be a primitive called "cliche" that does the mirrored
> sphere and checkered plane automatically, just to get it out of the way:
>
> cliche {<0,0,0>, texture {default}}
Try rendering my signature file:-)
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#local i=.1;#local I=(i/i)/i;#local l=(i+i)/i;#local ll=(I/i)/l;box{<-ll,
-((I/I)+l),-ll><ll,-l,ll>pigment{checker scale l}finish{ambient((I/l)/I)+
(l/I)}}sphere{<i-i,l-l,(I/l)>l/l pigment{rgb((I/l)/I)}finish{reflection((
I/l)/I)-(l/I)specular(I/l)/I}}light_source{<I-l,I+I,(I-l)/l>l/l} // Steve
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I think POV would be more likely to die if it changed to shareware.
Then there wouldn't be volunteer effort and the cash flow would
be insufficient to keep it going. As a case in point, there was an
early competitor, PolyRay it think was the name, which was shareware.
Do you see any evidence of PolyRay today? I rest my case.
The time expiration was used in beta testing POV 3.1 too, but that
didn't mean it became shareware. The time limitation is just to avoid
having to deal with supporting old and buggy versions of the program.
Long live POV-Ray!
Harold
news:3c96fa22$1@news.povray.org...
> Me too. But there are costs to cover, right? If the current activities
like
> Keyring, IRTC, books... are enough to keep PoV up and running: GREAT. If
> not, I'd prefer to turn PoV into shareware instead of let it die.
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> I think POV would be more likely to die if it changed to shareware.
Might happen, indeed. Especially I thought about it as a last chance but if
the software doesn't improve anymore due to some reason it most likely wont
do this just because of some (minimal) cash flow.
> Long live POV-Ray!
Agree!
regards
SY
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LOL!
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3c96efe2@news.povray.org...
> I was (and I am still) convinced that someone has done some calculations
to
> see what amount of money is necessary to keep PoV up as it is. Why not?
From povray's web site :
"Bringing POV-Ray and the IRTC to the public isn't cheap. In fact the annual
costs are enough to buy a brand-new car (and would be much more if it
weren't for the generosity of our hosts). This server is a co-located
machine (owned by a POV-Team member) connected to multiple OC-3's. It moves
an average of 15 gigabytes per day, split almost equally between POV-Ray and
the IRTC. Any difference between income from sales and the cost of the
co-location comes out of the personal finances of a POV-Ray developer. Since
we give POV-Ray away for free sales of these products are the only means we
have of meeting our running costs."
G.
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