My 'firsts' were never anything very interesting or complicated or artistic.
I did mostly checking out of what the program was able to do, probably for a
year. Watching lines build on the monitor screen. Remember, those were times
when our PC's worked rather slowly. I didn't even have a math coprocessor
until about 1994 sometime when I added one to my Dell 486SX. The more I see
of what others had done, compared to my meager attempts, the more impressed
I am.

I can't really determine if these two posted here are as early as I have but
they were in my Pictures\TGAs archive and dated 1994, among the earliest I
had there. Most are other peoples images or rerenders of other's scenes; and
I believe the torus+sphere is something by one of the original POV users of
the time, perhaps Dan Farmer for example. The vertex rendering hints of
being related to that but I know I started that up myself to see interacting
semi-transparent planes.

Bob H.

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