"Dan Farmer" <dmf### [at] msncom> wrote:
> Hello.  Some of you may know me, some of you may not.  I was involved in the
> early days of POV-Ray and even DKB Trace.  I'm afraid that I probably burned
> myself out after several years of not only creating traces, but doing
> CompuServe support and attempting in a limited way to add functionality to
> the POV-Ray source code, which I barely understood with my FoxPro and Basic
> background.
>

> I've stopped by a few times over the years, posted a couple of messages, and
> have frequently perused the competition sites.  I have to tell all of you
> that I am SO blown away by how you're using POV-Ray, and by the
> mind-boggling features that have been added to it!  We only used to DREAM
> of these days.

I'm real glad to hear from you, Dan! Thanks for helping POV-Ray become what
it is today. An awesome tool for both fun and learning useful skills
(artistic, techincal, and much more) not to mention producing beautiful
works of art.

> I wrote a suite of programs that rendered an image in
> slices on a network of 5 x286's and then pasted the slices together.  It
> took all night to do an antialized 800x600 image of a glass sphere over a
> checker
> board!
>

Funny you should mention that! I had a similiar dream in 2004 and released
MegaPOV XRS this year. I'm glad I followed through and turned a rough
prototype into a useful tool for others too. I learned so much in the
process and I enjoy having something to share with others. And yeah,
renders still take all night
;-)

Still, you beat me to the punch :D
My first computer was an Amiga 2000, and that wasn't until 1993! I only
switched to the PC in 1997 (After getting an A1200 and upgrading it all the
way to an '060 tower). Now I'm thinking of 'switching' to a different
computer...

See MegaPOV XRS on my site: http://www.gammaburst.net

> Enough war stories... I just had to say that I am so very glad to see that
> my dream of a free and totally state-of-the-art raytracer has flourished.
> I also must blushingly admit that I have felt much pride in noticing many
> of my now humble old scene files still proudly available as samples.
>

I use your scene files a lot for my tests! :-)

> I doubt that I will ever get back to creating my own scenes.  I'd have to
> start back at square #1, and there are now so many new squares on this
> checkerboard now!  Still,  looking at what you've all done with what David
> started, and Drew, Chris, and so many others continued has been a very rare
> and precious experience.  And I must also thank Chris Cason.  He has taken
> this project to places we never dreamed of.   Thanks, buddy!
>

You never know until you try! :-)

> Dan Farmer

Regards,
George

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By the way, some of you may remember Bob Schadewald.  Unfortunately, Bob
passed away a couple of years ago.  He lived only a few miles from me, so I
had the opportunity to visit with this amazing guy several times.

http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/schadew.htm

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/art.htm (Scroll down a bit for Bob's
stuff)

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damn!  so many Mike Millers out there! :P

still more detective work...

Unfortunately, the Doug in the highenergygraphics is actually Douglas Dodd,
not Miller.  He's not the same grauate from CCAD.  I should've researched
better.  Though i think he definetely worked with Mike, as in his resume:
http://www.highenergygraphics.com/drdResume.htm

I asked him in an email and never got an answer.

Still, my best bet would be that Mike Miller is actually the professor in
CCAD.  I wish i knew his email there...  The Doug Miller graduate from CCAD
and responsible for the webdesign of the journal that featured professor
Mike Miller from CCAD has this webpage, with email address in it:
http://home.columbus.rr.com/dougmiller/

the first Mike Miller i posted is not him, really, as he answered my email.
:)

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Dan Farmer wrote:
>> There are some old HOF-images here:
>>
>> ftp://ftp.povray.org/pub/povray/Hall-Of-Fame/
> 
> So cool!  Thanks, Tor.  You can bet that I'll be spending some time there
> tonight!

Do you remember those images and scenes I found on floppy some years back and
uploaded for you? (2003 I think). I just checked and they are still on the
server! I will post the URL and/or move them to a public area if you like.

-- Chris

PS just had a look at it - it's a real blast from the past!

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Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
> Do you remember those images and scenes I found on floppy some years back and
> uploaded for you? (2003 I think). I just checked and they are still on the
> server! I will post the URL and/or move them to a public area if you like.

That's be great!  I am busy right now running PCKTWTCH (Pocket watch) with
focal blur and area lights.  Its fun updating the old images.

I was going through my old 3.5" disks last night and I found that I still
have POVRAY 1.0!!  Of course, I no longer have a floppy drive (well, I do,
but at work).

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> Unfortunately, the Doug in the highenergygraphics is actually Douglas Dodd,
> not Miller.  He's not the same grauate from CCAD.  I should've researched
> better.  Though i think he definetely worked with Mike, as in his resume:
> http://www.highenergygraphics.com/drdResume.htm
>
> I asked him in an email and never got an answer.

I emailed the one with the graphic of the mugs, and got this reply when I
got home tonight:
==========================================================
Dan,

Mike and I started a business called Head Spin Studios in Ohio in 1992.  I
bought him out in 1996 and started my own business called High Energy
Graphics soon thereafter.  I lost track of him about 4 years ago, but I
remember you from the POV-RAY world (I worked in POV for a while, and

about him and send it to you.


Doug
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

From: Dan [mailto:dmf### [at] msncom]
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 6:06 PM
To: dou### [at] alldynamicscom
Subject: Mike Miller?



Hi, Doug,



I'm looking for any information about Mike Miller, former POV-Ray artist.
Your coffee mug image looks so similar to Mike's raytracings that I thought
that you might know something.



Dan Farmer

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On Wed,  8 Nov 2006 18:48:04 EST, "Dan Farmer" <dmf### [at] msncom> wrote:

>I was going through my old 3.5" disks last night and I found that I still
>have POVRAY 1.0!!  

A little O.T., but someone was looking for POV-Ray 1.0 in the following thread:

http://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/%3Cweb.44e87e38313ff58bb56b7e120@news.povray.org%3E/?ttop=234238&toff=50



Kyle

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Dan Farmer wrote:
> Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
>> Do you remember those images and scenes I found on floppy some years back and
>> uploaded for you? (2003 I think). I just checked and they are still on the
>> server! I will post the URL and/or move them to a public area if you like.
> 
> That's be great!  I am busy right now running PCKTWTCH (Pocket watch) with
> focal blur and area lights.  Its fun updating the old images.

ok, it's at http://www.povray.org/private/danf/

-- Chris

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Kyle wrote:
> On Wed,  8 Nov 2006 18:48:04 EST, "Dan Farmer" <dmf### [at] msncom> wrote:
> 
>>I was going through my old 3.5" disks last night and I found that I still
>>have POVRAY 1.0!!  
> 
> A little O.T., but someone was looking for POV-Ray 1.0 in the following thread:
> 
>
http://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/%3Cweb.44e87e38313ff58bb56b7e120@news.povray.org%3E/?ttop=234238&toff=50

A while back I did in fact put version 1.0 of POV up on our ftp site at
http://www.povray.org/ftp/pub/povray/Old-Versions/

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Dan Farmer wrote:
...
> That's be great!  I am busy right now running PCKTWTCH (Pocket watch) with
> focal blur and area lights.  Its fun updating the old images.
...

Heh - That is one of the images that inspired me to start POV-ing.

Was it you that made that image ?

-- 
Tor Olav
http://subcube.com

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