David Buck wrote:

> DKBTrace and POVRay are excellent examples of programs that were grown, 
> not built.  It started from a small core and grew from there.  We didn't 
> do a design of the complete system and build it from that.  I'm 
> convinced that the organic growth technique works best.
> 

And that organic nature reaches beyond the program development to 
suffuse the entire POVer phenonmenum: the nature of the community, the 
applications for which the program is used, the nature of the artwork 
produced, the spirit with which it is promoted.

You are rightly proud.

My involvement with the program, the contest, the newsgroups has lead to 
many insights and much enjoyment.  It really cannot be understated.

Jim Charter

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Jim Charter wrote:
> David Buck wrote:
> And that organic nature reaches beyond the program development to 
> suffuse the entire POVer phenonmenum: the nature of the community, the 
> applications for which the program is used, the nature of the artwork 
> produced, the spirit with which it is promoted.
> 
> You are rightly proud.
> 
> My involvement with the program, the contest, the newsgroups has lead to 
> many insights and much enjoyment.  It really cannot be understated.
> 
> Jim Charter

I sometimes wonder how many people use POVRay. I don't imagine we'd have 
any way of finding out.

It might be cool some day to organize a POV conference to have people 
actually meet each other.  We did that at one SIGGRAPH conference back 
in 1992 in Chicago.  It was the first time I ever actually met Aaron 
Collins along with a number of other POVRay users and developers.  It's 
always strange meeting people you've communicated with by e-mail and 
newsgroups but never actually saw in person.

David Buck

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