My first experiences with scripted rendering was aged 12-13ish. A friend
gave me a copy of PVRay (as it was known then!) when I was 15 or 16. It was
actually the 4th command-line ray tracer I ever used, and was much, much
more advanced than the others - I've not used anything else since! I was
fascinated by what these programs could do, which provided the drive to
learn how to use them. I'd say anybody between those ages with any aptitude
for mathematics would be fine with the bare bones of POV as long as they
were interested in it.

Bill

PS It'd make a great introductory programming language, too...

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