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29 Jul 2024 18:26:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Image for the history books  
From: Doctor John
Date: 28 Dec 2013 02:16:18
Message: <52be7ac2$1@news.povray.org>
On 28/12/13 02:32, David Buck wrote:
> Here's a slightly larger version that shows the AmigaDOS screen behind.
> 
> David Buck
> 
> On 2013-12-27 9:27 PM, David Buck wrote:
>> Here's an image for the history books.  In "The Early History of
>> POV-Ray", I wrote that I started in raytracing when I downloaded the C
>> code for a raytracer for Unix from the Internet and ported it to the
>> Amiga.  I then added support for color.
>>
>> Here, my friends, is the first color raytraced image I ever produced.
>> This picture pre-dates POV-Ray and even DKBTrace.  It was the image that
>> inspired me to do better and write DKBTrace in the first place.
>>
>> Enjoy
>>
>> David Buck
> 

A wonderful Xmas present for the community! Thank you, David ... and
thank you also for all the work you did subsequently.

John
-- 
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It was not given to you by your parents
You hold it in trust for your children


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