Thank you for telling me about that book.  If anyone knows of an up-to-date
book for POV-Ray please tell me about it.


Ron Parker wrote in message <369fa5b4.0@news.povray.org>...
>On Fri, 15 Jan 1999 15:18:44 -0500, Jim Kress <jim### [at] dccmailcom> wrote:
>>There are no such books.  POV scene language is unique to POV.  It kinda
>>looks like C but getting a book on the C language will not help you learn
to
>>write POV files in POV scene language.
>
>Knowing C will not help you with POV.  It only looks like C because
>of all the curly braces.  The procedural parts of it are a lot more
>like BASIC than like C.  The declarative parts are unlike any other
>mainstream language.
>
>There once was such a book, Ray Tracing Creations by Drew Wells and
>Chris Young, published by Waite Group Press.  It is now out of print
>(and, IIRC, the publisher is out of business) and in any case only
>applies to POV 2.2 and earlier.  Anything you could do in 2.2 you
>can still do in 3.1, however, so if you can find a copy at your local
>library or used book store, and you absolutely need something you can
>read on the plane, it might be worth it.  Just keep in mind that
>there is now far more that can be done with POV than could be done
>when that book was written.  For example, it doesn't cover the
>procedural parts of POV at all, because they were added in version
>3.0.

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