I'm afraid I got the name wrong :-(.  I'm so embarrassed.

David Buck

nemesis wrote:
> I know about it.  David didn't know who the astronaut guy was. :)
> 
> Arne Kleinophorst <kle### [at] spamdebitelnet> wrote:
>> http://www.oyonale.com/iss.php?lang=en&page=1
>>
>> the whole story behind it.
>>
>> nemesis schrieb:
>>> David Buck <dav### [at] simberoncom> wrote:
>>>> The FLOSS Weekly episode on POV-Ray has now been posted.
>>>>
>>>>  http://twit.tv/floss24
>>> an image rendered by some astronaut guy in space, huh? ;)
>>>
>>> cool interview...
>>>
>>>
>>>
> 
> 
> 
>

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David Buck wrote:
> The FLOSS Weekly episode on POV-Ray has now been posted.
> 
>     http://twit.tv/floss24

That's pretty neat.

One of my images is being talked about even (Eroded Crags) - it is
pretty interesting that a lot of people find procedural textures quite
understandable but procedural geometry tends to be quite a bit more
difficult to grasp.

Since Chris did not mention it - Norbert Kern's Boreal scene which is
being talked about consists pretty much of Xfrog plants.

And Chris: you sound pretty Australian indeed. ;-)


Christoph

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Images, include files, tutorials: http://www.imagico.de/
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David Buck <dav### [at] simberoncom> wrote:
> For a while in the late 90's, I was working with a good friend of mine
> who is a professional animator.  I would write the code and he would be
> the animator and graphics artist for our project.  This collaboration
> was really fun and created things that neither of us could have created
> alone.  I'd love to be able to do that again sometime.

you know, if you guys persisted, you could end up just as Ed Catmull and John
Lasseter of Pixar fame. :)

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David Buck wrote:

> 
> Thanks.  It was fun to do and I would like to thank and congratulate 
> Chris on his participation.  He came across really well and contributed 
> immensely to the conversation.

The clarity with which he cuts to the heart of a question is just rare 
and pleasing to witness.

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I find it funny that you asked for clouds on the newsgroup, and you 
weren't asked about that; yet you were asked how many lines of code DKB 
and current POV have, and you didn't know.

That's just like school exams! You get asked what you didn't study, and 
you wasted time studying things you weren't asked! Oh well, that's life :)

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I liked that the recent thread of implementing a webserver in povray SDL got
mentioned! :)

In the end, when David and Chris were off, they were actually talking about
trying to get such a cool tool in the hands of students.  In fact, I've
wondered about it for long as well:  why not expose math students to povray
rather than boring plotters or Fortran?  The SDL offers better constructs than
Fortran as a first programming language and the renderer is obviously far
better than most algebraic plotters.  It's very enticing to learn math and
geometry that way...

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David Buck wrote:
> Ummm... thanks I guess :-)

Sorry, I listen to an hour-long technical discussion, and all I can 
comment on is the sound of your voice. :-P

Just the other week, I watched this (also hour-long) video of Linus 
Torvalds talking about Git revision control:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

If anyone is bored enough to watch it, you'll see why "more polite than 
Linus" isn't saying much.

Trying to get back on topic, I had forgotten the story about Povray 
originally being for the Amiga. Does it still run on the Amiga? :-)

-- 
William Tracy
afi### [at] gmailcom -- wtr### [at] calpolyedu

Live by the code, die by the code.

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David Buck <dav### [at] simberoncom> wrote:
> The FLOSS Weekly episode on POV-Ray has now been posted.
>
>  http://twit.tv/floss24
>
> Enjoy.
>
> David Buck

It was quite interesting to hear the interview. I know that so many people, like
myself, feel an immense debt of gratitude to David K. Buck and to the whole
POV-Ray development team; for, so much quality has been added to our lives!

I only have dial-up and managed to listen to about half of the interview. Long
enough, though, to hear one of the interviewers remark upon the quasi-broken
status of POV-Ray on Mac OSX. This was correctly attributed to Apple's change
to the Intel processor.

It would have been nice if it had been mentioned that MacMegaPOV works perfectly
well on the new Intel Macs, although, regrettably, for the moment, it does not
allow one to save animations directly into QuickTime.

At any rate, thanks very much to all who have made POV-Ray what it is!

--Russell Towle

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> I find it funny that you asked for clouds on the newsgroup, and you
> weren't asked about that; yet you were asked how many lines of code DKB
> and current POV have, and you didn't know.
...

tok@storeblaa ~ $ wc --lines povray-3.6.1/source/*
     44 povray-3.6.1/source/Makefile.am
...
    153 povray-3.6.1/source/warps.h
 147667 total

-- 
Tor Olav
http://subcube.com

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Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> I find it funny that you asked for clouds on the newsgroup, and you
>> weren't asked about that; yet you were asked how many lines of code DKB
>> and current POV have, and you didn't know.
> ...
> 
> tok@storeblaa ~ $ wc --lines povray-3.6.1/source/*
>      44 povray-3.6.1/source/Makefile.am
> ...
>     153 povray-3.6.1/source/warps.h
>  147667 total
> 


DKBTrace:  14634 LOC

David

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