"Mr" <m******r******at_hotmail_dot_fr> wrote:
> "Clarence1898" <dle### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> > I was going through some old drives and found this one.  I posted this probably
> > 20 years ago as my obligatory first RSOCP.  I came across Povray in the early
> > 90s and have used it off and on ever since.  I thought it might be interesting
> > to see what programming Pov scenes would be like in the 1970's.  Just for a
> > little background, I've been a mainframe programmer since 1969, and now enjoy
> > programming PC's.
>
> Hi,
> Did you render this on a current POV-Ray version (3.7 or 3.8b), and if so with
> the proper version directive?
>
> I love the concept, the visual ideas, and they read like a very nice picture...
> So though I'm not used to that, it motivates me to use for the first time (and
> maybe the last if it comes out too harsh) a very meanly well-intended sarcasm :
> could you please use conserve_energy keyword with your metals, as they are
> currently so blindingly bright that I can't see the picture ! ;-P
> I wish Cousin Ricky's macros could be included in POV-Ray sources, so that the
> default way of calling a metal would have all that hard-wired. because users
> should be able to trust the defaults to not do that kind of thing. To sum it up
> use fresnel, ior, conserve_energy and a sum of diffuse+specular+reflection below
> 1.(most clean and shiny metals should have very very low diffuse)
>
> Seriously, nice hues and punched cards though, as I do see them!

Thank You.
It was rendered by version 3.5 probably 20 years ago.  I recovered the images
from an old hard drive, unfortunately I could not find the original source.  I
still have a couple of drives to check, hopefully the source is on one of them.
I would like to render it on a newer version.

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