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31 Jul 2024 08:23:16 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Nostalgic Lego  
From: Rick Gutleber
Date: 25 Jan 2010 12:31:12
Message: <4b5dd560$1@news.povray.org>
Wonderful!  I still have some of that old stuff.  Gray tires.  Even the 
old Lego logo from the early 70s.  I started with Lego when I was 3 and 
I'm almost 45 now.  :-)

Now my kids are Lego freaks.  Thanks for the wonderful render.

On 2010-01-24 20:47, Ive wrote:
> While doing a bit of browsing within some stacks of old 3.5" disks I did
> find some POV-Ray source files of mine I had completely forgotten about.
> It seems they where made for POV-Ray 3.0 and I couldn't resist to update
> them and make them work with 3.7 beta.
>
> The POV-Ray Lego bricks itself are just the kind of basic bricks I did
> play with when I was a child (so about 1966, I guess, before Lego did
> start with all those fancy sets) and I guess the youngsters among you
> will not remember this kind of simple wheels and axis parts, but this is
> how they looked like ;)
>
> And as I'm currently working on some camera lens distortion removal
> filters I figured that I could use the same routines to also *add* some
> lens distortion. This is 'just' post-processing and maybe it will find
> its way into IC some day.
>
> -Ive


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