OH, MY!  I just remembered another connection between Star Trek and 
POV-Ray!  David K. Buck middle name is the same as the Captain first 
name!! :D

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David Buck wrote:
> Ahead, Warp Factor 1.
> 
> On Wednesday February 6th, Chris Cason and I will be recording a 
> FLOSS-Weekly podcast with Leo Laporte and Randal Schwartz about POV-Ray.
> 
>     http://twit.tv/FLOSS

and BTW, this is good news! :)

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Yes, because of that, my nickname in high school became "Captain". :-)

David

nemesis wrote:
> OH, MY!  I just remembered another connection between Star Trek and 
> POV-Ray!  David K. Buck middle name is the same as the Captain first 
> name!! :D

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Yeah - I knew!   :-)

The more a reason for such a POV slogan, right?

Sven



"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> Sven Littkowski <sven [] jamaica-focus [] com> wrote:
>> To boldly go where no render
>> program has gone before.
>
>  I'm not sure if you happen to know that POV-Ray is the first (and AFAIK
> the only so far) renderer in the world to have been used in space (at the
> MIR space station) to render an image.
>
> -- 
>                                                          - Warp

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Point taken, Chris. Point taken. I had in mind, that - in opposition to any 
other slogan - the new POV slogan would be changed, from year to year (the 
years of mission). Unlike any other slogan, since POV-Ray is unlike to any 
other render software.

Sven



"Chris B" <nom### [at] nomailcom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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>
> "Sven Littkowski" <sven [] jamaica-focus [] com> wrote in message 
> news:47a2cf63@news.povray.org...
>> ... snip ...
>>POV-Ray (will become 20 years old in 2009!!!):
>> ... snip ...
>> ... Its nineteen-year mission: ... snip ...
>
> I'm not keen on the implication that it's nearing the end of its mission!
>
> Regards,
> Chris B.
>

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I should have written
:
"Virtual Reality, the final frontier. These are the calculations of the
raytracer POV-Ray. Its nineteenth year of its mission: To explore virtual 
new worlds.
To seek out virtual life and virtual art. To boldly go where no render
program has gone before."

Sven



"Chris B" <nom### [at] nomailcom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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>
> "Sven Littkowski" <sven [] jamaica-focus [] com> wrote in message 
> news:47a2cf63@news.povray.org...
>> ... snip ...
>>POV-Ray (will become 20 years old in 2009!!!):
>> ... snip ...
>> ... Its nineteen-year mission: ... snip ...
>
> I'm not keen on the implication that it's nearing the end of its mission!
>
> Regards,
> Chris B.
>

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Thanks, David. I think, I sourced that information from the Wikipedia entry 
about POV-Ray. You might have to do some corrections there, as well. I 
think, they stated that POV-Ray was born in 1989.,,

If your Amiga's storage media is maybe still operational even if the entire 
Amiga is not, you might try to build that storage media into some other 
Amiga. Just a thought, but I am sure you might have tried that long time.

So, what about the slogan idea?   :-)

Sven



"David Buck" <dav### [at] simberoncom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:47a31543$1@news.povray.org...
> Ahead, Warp Factor 1.
>
> On Wednesday February 6th, Chris Cason and I will be recording a 
> FLOSS-Weekly podcast with Leo Laporte and Randal Schwartz about POV-Ray.
>
> http://twit.tv/FLOSS
>
> In preparation for that, I've been trying to confirm the timeline behind 
> POV-Ray.  I'm afraid my original dates in the Early History of POV-Ray are 
> incorrect.  Here's what I have:
>
> 1987 - DKBTrace 1.0 released
> - it's very hard to tell exactly when - I have few records
>   and any data is on an Amiga that doesn't work any more.
> December 11, 1990 - DKBTrace 2.0 released
> March 7, 1991 - POVRay project proposed
> July 20, 1991 - DKBTrace 2.12 released.  POV-Ray development begins
>
> Depending on whether you want to count DKBTrace or POV-Ray as the original 
> birthday, POVRay is now either 20 years old this year or 16.
>
> I'll try to get the dates in the POVRay documentation corrected.
>
> David Buck
>
>
> Sven Littkowski wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I am making herewith the request to use some slogan like the following 
>> one, in order to show the spirit of the render software POV-Ray (will 
>> become 20 years old in 2009!!!):
>> ...
>> And I am sure, when the first kiss between a human and an alien happens, 
>> David Kirk Buck, Aaron Collins or Christopher Cason or any other of the 
>> long-eared, deeply logically thinking POV programmers will appear from 
>> behind some corner, and try to teach the alien the way how to use 
>> POV-Ray...
>>
>> Sven

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And I am sure, his other, hidden middlename is "Tiberius", right, David?

But there is another non-dying movie character by the name "Buck Rogers": A 
guy shot in space, falling asleep for some little time, and waking up half a 
millenium later.And seeing the future...

Sven



"nemesis" <nam### [at] nospamgmailcom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> OH, MY!  I just remembered another connection between Star Trek and 
> POV-Ray!  David K. Buck middle name is the same as the Captain first 
> name!! :D

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Aren't they..?

Or ... Oh my Gosh!  - are they Klingons?!? Damn!!!

Sven



"nemesis" <nam### [at] nospamgmailcom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> You know you've been raytracing too long when povray developers are 
> comparable to Vulcans... ;)

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"Sven Littkowski" <sven [] jamaica-focus [] com> wrote in message 
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> Aren't they..?
>
> Or ... Oh my Gosh!  - are they Klingons?!? Damn!!!
>
No, then it would have been hand-coded in binary  ;)


-- 
-Nekar Xenos-

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