My humble beginnings were a direct result of the two Pov-Ray books "Ray
Tracing Creations" and I think the other one was "Creating Worlds w/
Pov-Ray" or something similar (they are both packed away now). I also tried
to learn Ville Saari's (sp?) approach to NCC 1701, which resulted in my
first animation (simple translation/time (starship) and rotation/time
(Earth). I also learned the trick of the 12:1 ratio of camera
position-target object in creating 3D animations, and created a fly through
of the "Red Baron" realm (a flight sim).
  After that I fell did my first "original" image, was a height_field
generated from one of the few images I had on my disk (a friend had been
kind enough to share a nude, or two via email - that would get me shot these
days).
  Anyway, that was in the days of my 386 DX40! :) Gee, how times change.
  Well, that image is long gone. I was able to discover the original source
on floppy (one of the few not affected by magnetic migration), so I visited
one of the Tokyo nude sites and captured a similar image for rendering. I
was very disappointed to find it didn't come out anything like the original,
but at least what I had attempted to portray was preserved in part.
  So, you get one guess as to what those hills really are underneath that
topsoil! ;)

GrimDude
vos### [at] arkansasnet

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