Here are some more:

..have you seen
  .."Toy Story"
  .."AntZ"
  .."The Matrix"
  .."Star Wars"
  .. (guys please add others here)
  ..any of the above more than once?
    ..to "get" a particular effect
      ..did you get it?
        ..were you able to duplicate it?
          ..in POV-Ray
  ..do you own any of the above...
    ..on tape
      ..is it tape worn out yet?
    ..on CD/DVD
      ..is it scratched beyond readability yet?
    ..on floppy disks?
  .."Barney the Dinosaur"
    ..do you admit it?
    ..do you regret it?

PERSONAL
..have you installed everything neccessary for living in your computer
room
  ..including the toilet seat?
    ..have you modelled your room?
..do you know what day of the week is, without looking at a calendar?
  ..date
  ..year
  ..millenium
..are you wearing glasses
  ..as a result of too much raytracing?
..are you fingertips insensitive yet?
..do you own a light intensimeter?
  ..do you use it to determine whether your shoes need waxing?
    ..have your modelled your shoes?
..have you modelled your partner?
  ..are you still together?
..can you tie a tie-knot looking at it in a mirror?
  ..a distorted mirror
  ..a hall of mirrors
..have you modelled your pet?
..do you talk to yourself?
  ..in the POV-Ray scripting language?
..do other people have trouble understanding you?

On Sun, 31 Oct 1999 03:29:06 +0200, I wrote:

>DO YOU HAVE:
>..The Official POV-Ray CD-ROM
>..Any IRTC CD-ROMs

   ..both of them?

>..a printed copy of the POV-Ray manual
>  ..on glossy paper

     ..hard-cover?

>..Moray

   ..(please fill in the best Mac modeller here)
   ..(please fill in the best Unix modeller here)

>..A copy of "Raytracing Creations"
>  ..Is it signed?
>..A Utah teapot
>  ..a printout of Mike Miller's picture
>..a checkered floor
   ..is it in blue and green/yellow?


>..a glass sphere

   ..do you know its IOR
     ..to nearest the one-thousandth
       ..one millionth

>..a Cray

   ..have you compiled POV on it?
     ..PVM-Pov?

>..512 Kb of hand-written source files
>  ..1 MB
>  ..4 MB
>..local copies of all messages on this server
>  ..on a separate HDD drive
>  ..on CD

   ..on printouts

>..a laser pointer pen
>  ..has it helped you in raytracing
>..the SuperPatch
>..UVPOV
>..4 POV patches
>  ..8
>  ..16
>..POV-Ray
>..a life
>
>DO YOU KNOW
>..a team member personally
>  ..are you one?
>..all command line parameters by heart
>  ..their .INI equivalents
>..the syntax of all POV keywords
>  ..plus the SuperPatch ones
>  ..plus the UVPOV ones
>..the number of You Can Call Me Ray BBS
>
>CAN YOU
>..point out where a bug comes from without looking at the source
>  ..fix it
>..decode and understand
>  ..Mark's virus
>  ..Warp's signature
>  ..Chris Colefax's Lens Effects include file/macro

>..convert halo to media
>  ..in your head
>    ..does it work?
>      ..the first time?
>..predict how a quartic will look
>  ..a poly
>    ..any poly
>  ..a julia
>  ..a bezier_patch
>  ..a mesh
     ..a 100 KB mesh?
>..tell the time by looking at your shadow
>  ..by looking at the moon
>..know a fake gem by its ior
>..type faster than you write
>  ..than you talk
>  ..than you read
>..convert any color you see to rgbft
>..predict how a color will look like (knowing the background)
>
>HAVE YOU EVER

..rendered a pie-chart?

..tried to improve your score on this test?
  ..did you succeed?

..tried voice recognition to help you code faster?

..added the word "POV-Ray" to a spell-checker dictionary?
  ..sent a request to the vendor to add it in the next release?

..raytraced while drunk or high?
  ..did you like the result?
  ..were you able to understand your code?

..do you indent your code?
  ..in a unique manner?
    ..is anybody else able to read it?

..analysed code in bed?

..dreamt that you were raytracing?
  ..in the POV-Ray scripting language?
    ..did it work?

..attended SIGGRAPH?

>..logged on You Can Call Me Ray BBS
>  ..#povray

   ..the CompuServe POV-Ray forum?
   ..c.g.r.r.?

>..made money by raytracing
>  ..by ratracing?
>  ..by trayracing?
>..spent 6 hours without getting off the chair
>  ..12 hours
>  ..18 hours
>  ..24 hours
>  ..36 hours
>..scotch-taped the brightness/gamma controls on your monitor

   ..ripped them off?

>..missed a class while raytracing

   ..an exam
     ..did you avoid getting expelled from school?

>  ..missed a workday
>  ..a holiday
>  ..a wedding
>    ..was it your own?
>  ..a divorce
>    ..was it your own?
>..fallen asleep in front of the computer
>..had a render time of 1 day
>  ..1 week
>  ..1 month
>  ..1 year
>..installed POV nn your school/work network
>  ..on multiple computers
>    ..you used it actively
>      ..during workdays

         ..do you still work there?

>..gotten in a flame war about rendering software
>  ..outside the Internet
>    ..in a bar

     ..in bed?

>..bought more RAM to satisfy a specific render
>  ..a new HDD

     ..did it get filled up?

Still more to come but I have to dig up in the papers and on the HDD.

Other additions are welcome. Alex, will you mind if I take over
putting this test in a more organised form? Everyone: will you give me
your permission to use your contributions?


Peter Popov
ICQ: 15002700

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