"And DKB said, 'let there be light', and there was light, and it did 
approximate Maxwell's equations to first order."

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Invisible escreveu:
> "And DKB said, 'let there be light', and there was light, and it did 
> approximate Maxwell's equations to first order."

And the world was formless and void, so He hacked away a scripting 
language and with it devised beautiful isosurface, recursive forms to 
nature.

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nemesis wrote:
> Invisible escreveu:
>> "And DKB said, 'let there be light', and there was light, and it did 
>> approximate Maxwell's equations to first order."
> 
> And the world was formless and void, so He hacked away a scripting 
> language and with it devised beautiful isosurface, recursive forms to 
> nature.

It's interesting... Looking at the POV-Ray article on Wikipedia, under 
"features", the first item is not physically-correct reflections, or 
interdiffuse illumination, or procedural texturing, but "Turing-complete 
scene construction language". o_O

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Orchid XP v8 escreveu:
> nemesis wrote:
>> Invisible escreveu:
>>> "And DKB said, 'let there be light', and there was light, and it did 
>>> approximate Maxwell's equations to first order."
>>
>> And the world was formless and void, so He hacked away a scripting 
>> language and with it devised beautiful isosurface, recursive forms to 
>> nature.
> 
> It's interesting... Looking at the POV-Ray article on Wikipedia, under 
> "features", the first item is not physically-correct reflections, or 
> interdiffuse illumination, or procedural texturing, but "Turing-complete 
> scene construction language". o_O

"In the beginning was the Verb" ;)

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