No, not like that.
My son was born 15 years ago.  :P

However, for his 15th birthday I thought maybe he'd enjoy a 3D printer.

And that has got me looking into OpenSCAD again.

Looking over OpenSCAD, it reminded me that it - shall we say - bears a
*striking* resemblance to POV-Ray.
So much so, that A look at its source might be illuminating.

Now the interesting thing is that OpenSCAD is under active development, is free,
open-source, and has a number of libraries.

They've done Google Summer of Code and all that stuff.

We could likely benefit from a lot of the work that's been done on their
software, and I can see that there could be a lot of cross-over.

So I'm inviting folks to go over, check things out, and maybe borrow a few
models and render them in POV-Ray.  Maybe join the forums and post renders, make
the off-hand comment about how code in OpenSCAD and POV-Ray are (clearly, with
certain differences) nearly identical.  "Hey, this thing this guy rendered would
be pretty neat to 3D print..."  "Hey, that 3D print came out ok, but I'll bet it
would an even more amazing render..."

Talent, expertise, enthusiasm, a vibrant community of coders that are already
familiar with something that's almost exactly like SDL...

I mean, I'm hoping that this doesn't even need selling.

- BE

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