One of my goals is to create a Cyclopedia for POV-Ray for speceific q&a and I
suspect that you have questions that will work. If you post your exact
question I will post an explanation and solution. If someone else finds a
solid solution, I will post that with my own explanation about the whys and
wherefores. I tutor folks with college level algebra, which is the same stuff
as high school level classes. 

My goal is to make you understand what is happening and why, and I also strive
to make it clear and presentable (unlike some of my posts to this NG), so if
something isn't clear, ask away.

The site doesn't have much of anything at this point, but please help me fill
it up. I can't begin to guess at the questions you will ask, but once you ask,
I can answer.

The site is currently at
http://www.spiritone.com/~english/cyclopedia/cyclopedia.html and if it's
unreadable, accept my apology. I'm experimenting with CSS and trying to find a
comprimise between how all the other browsers draw this stuff is quite a
challenge... I'm working on that, too.

Josh

Thomas Lake wrote:
> 
> 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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