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From: Peter Hertel
Date: 18 Aug 2003 14:38:11
Message: <3f411d13@news.povray.org>
> > Checker? Sphere? Chrome?
> >
> >:-/
> Checker what? sphere what else? chrome why not? Pardon me, but my
mind-
> reading machine is offline. Could you expand on what you were trying
to get
> across?
It's a tradition of the POV-Ray newsgroups that your first post is a
image of a chrome sphere over a checkerd plane :) There's been a lot of
awesome variations on that theme lately.

> > And btw, no matter what they tell you, try out handcoding ;)
>
> About 3 years ago, I had POVRay 3.0 (maybe 3.1) on a pentium II 450; I
> remember doing a scene with a hexagon floor which had hexagon textures
3
> layers deep on it, with this pink marble tray made of a union of
various
> boxes, cylinders, & spheres.  It was beautiful!
Hey, sounds like a checkered plane! Show us! And it felt good too, no?
Knowing that you did that all with your own hands?
:) Ok, I'll stop trying to convert you, but you really fall in love with
POV-Ray handcoding when you start to get a little hang of it!


-Peter


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