David Buck <dav### [at] simberoncom> wrote:
> Here's an image rendered by DKBTrace before it became POVRay.  It was
> modeled by Rick Demers at Carleton University.  He didn't quite get the
> positioning right on the top of the pillars but the image was
> nonetheless stunning when he created it.  It's called "roman".  It shows
> the marble texture we had available at that time.
>
> Enjoy.

Oh wow, that's the type of image that captured my imagination in the early '90s!
I remember the sample scenes that came with the early versions of POV. (I
started out with version 1.0.) If I remember correctly one scene had a cool
spiral thing and some orange spheres and another one had a stone creature of
some sort. I bought a math co-processor for the 25 MHz 386 computer at work so I
could render those scenes. At the time I was working at a store that sold
shareware in Southern California. At one sales event I met Drew Wells and for me
it was like meeting a superstar celebrity.

The first object I made on my own was the Metallica logo. I sent it to the
Metallica fan club in 1993 and they sent it to every member of the club as a
test to see how their new e-mail system worked. Even today, there's a statement
on the Metallica fan club website that says, "The Metallica Club was started in
1993 as a way for the band to establish lines of communication with fans and
remain connected year round." So the very first communication they sent to all
the fans was a POV-Ray image! I don't have the original image file anymore but I
re-created it and attached it. It's even saved as a .gif file, just like the
original.

Thank you Mr. Buck for what you gave to the world!!!

Regards,
Dave Blandston

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