Well I've been reading/posting/replying to this newgroup for some months

now and I have always been interested in and even more so now, with the
advent of all these fractal images, the more mathematical and technical
sides of pov-ray. I've always wanted to know how people create these
amazing fractal patterns and neat abstract shapes many of which are
featured in the examples that come with Pov-Ray. Also I am VERY
interested in learning how to create my own Macros, just for the fun of
it, I have endless ideas for macros, most of them useless but fun
anyway. What I'd like to know is just where should I start to learn any
of this? I know almost no programing, well a little JavaScript, and I
don't know any math beyond very basic algebra. Now I have played around
with some simple fractals, like the examples which come with Lparser,
and I even began to start to understand them but only very basically. If

anyone could point me to any good resources for a beginner in these
areas, i.e. macro's and fractals, I would be very appreciated. Oh and
please keep it simple, I'm 17 and therefore don't understand and
university level algebra,calculus,chaos therory,cosmology or super
string theory. :-)

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