Really nice horse, it's a shame you've lost the code.  Presumably you'r
not using 95 or NT, or you could try a find containing text from the
tools menu in Explorer, and search for the name of an object that you
remember from that particular file.  You never know where windows puts
files.

Steve

Ken wrote:
> 
> It was in the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless evening, in the autumn
>  of the year, the sky overcast threatening rain, and the wretched cold penetrating
>  to the very core of my body, that I happened upon the ill fated house of Beauty...
> 
>    This is an image of a scene I have been working on 3 day's now for my sisters
>  birthday. I got the scene to this stage and saved it as a jpg for reference
>  purposes. I made a couple of changes and added a bunch of spheres to make a
>  string like water curtain effect around the statue.
>     I must have been a little over enthusiastic with the ambient values for the
>  spheres and their number. I already had the 72 colored spotlights highlighting
>  the ceiling and the light buffers started consuming enormous amounts of memory.
>     After rendering for 15 min. my hard drive started groaning and thrashing
>  in an unatural way. Concerned I stopped the render using the windows task manager  
 because Pov
> had stopped responding. When I restarted Pov the file and all of it's
>  contents were gone. This will remain an unfinished and unreproducable work -
>  a fatal beauty if you will.
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler
> 
> mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net
> 
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>  [Image]

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