Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/4/2010 11:19 AM, Warp wrote:
>
> > >
> > >    Wow, those graphics are really crappy even by 90's standards (consider
> > > that eg. Terminator 2 was made in 1991 and Jurassic Park in 1993).
> > >
>
> > And yet, they remind me very much of the early days of POV-Ray (back
> > when it was PV-Ray.)
>
> > I think even Luxo Jr had been around for a while back then.
>
>   OTOH, nowadays you can create pretty much T2-looking graphics with free
> tools, while back in the early 90's you would have to pay at least thousands
> of dollars if you wanted to get even close... Back then movie CGI effects
> were really expensive.

OTOH, I've seen some povray animations from IRTC from those days that look on
par with those. :)  and that's a one-man amateur job!

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