Hello.
I would suggest a little of what both TonyB and GrimDude were saying. What I
know, and what I'm learning I've taught myself - via the hard works of
others that have been recorded in print - i.e. I read a lot! Along with the
reading I apply apply and apply some more. This is good to do if you really
want to learn and believe you have the diligence to and hunger to climb an
ever rising mountain. To be honest, this is the same attitude you must have
to succeed in University. No one there is going to nor be able to spoon feed
your education. You must read, study and apply to reap any benefit and
reward from your efforts. Going to University is necessary if you want
documentation to prove your knowlege so that it can be applied toward a
career path. However, if this isn't a career choice yet you still want to
learn and discover then documentation isn't that important and the pace you
set can be as comfortable and challenging as you wish. So, prelude over: My
advice would be used book stores and garage sales - cheap books - very cheap
and the Web. There are thousands of resources all relating to the topic of
math, for free, and hundreds of sites run by people who want only to share
their knowlege and help anyone who is like-wise interested. So, I would
recommend getting your hands on a book of advanced algebra - or if you are
past that - Trig - and start on page one. Be patient, consistent - and never
look at the bibliography until you have finished the book (it will only
scare and/or distract you )    ;-]

KB-

p.s remeber - apply, apply, apply; do the problems answer the questions -
banking from GrimDudes message - experience will always pay-off greater than
anything else - and experience is something "done" not "going to do".

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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