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From: Rune
Date: 8 Nov 2004 16:24:33
Message: <418fe411@news.povray.org>
Stefan Viljoen wrote:
> Wow - hey Rune, you live in Scandinavia, right?

Yep, in Denmark.

> Why is it that all the great -real- programmers live
> in or near the Arctic circle?

Do they? I have no idea why.

> This is VERY impressive - I would never ever be able
> to figure something like that out on my own.

It was partly a joke. :) It will have limited usefullness in my system - it 
was more meant to illustrate the way I often think...

> The closest I have come was when I figured out an
> assembly bitblitter for 320x200x256. And that took
> me weeks. That was nothing compared to this!

A bitblitter is something with displaying sprites on the screen, right? Or 
what? I'm not sure...

> You plan to release a bones system for Pov maybe?

Oh, but I've only just started on it. I expect the project to take years...

Rune
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