David Buck wrote:
> 
> I rendered all the scenes provided in POV-Ray 3.5 and I find that many
> of the scenes date back to the early 90's.  There are very few scenes
> that are artistic and really show off what POV-Ray can do these days.
> It would be nice if the user community could contribute the source for
> some of their best scenes to the POV-Ray distribution.  Even if you
> could provide the scene file for the splash screen image.  I really like
> that.  The .dat files provided are usually either quick tests (and
> sometimes ugly) or very old.  Let's show what POV-Ray can really do.

There was quite a bit of discussion in the pre-beta round about forming
a group to address this issue after the final release. What was proposed
was a collection of scenes and utilities that would enhance the scene
files collection and updates to the documentation without increasing
the burden on the download of the main distirbution of the package.
There is a very good possibility that this will still happen and when
ready will be hosted at povray.org or on the TAG homepage. Kind of a
post release resource center with offical sponsorship.

-- 
Ken Tyler - TAG, your it.

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"Rune" <run### [at] mobilixnetdk> wrote in message
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> While being in the pre-beta testing groups I kind of was told that the demo
> scenes were supposed to illustrate the features efficiently and that beauty
> and nice design didn't mean that much. Only the scenes in the \advanced\
> folder had art as the main purpose. And perhaps that's not such a bad idea -
> I'm not sure.
>
> Anyway, I'm not sure what you're suggesting: Should we attempt to make the
> feature demo scenes more artistic, or should we just increase the number of
> scenes in the \advanced\ folder?
>
I'd also like to see a 'basic scene'  in the insert menu that looks more
realistic. For instance a desert scene with just the ground and sky. IMHO...

- Nekar

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Gilles Tran <tra### [at] inapginrafr> wrote in
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> The paradox is that our collective demand for really nice stuff is so
> high that it's getting hard to make artistic images (of the wow! kind
> at least) that can still fit in a regular Povray distribution, have
> acceptable hardware requirements and render in acceptable times.

I have some half-decent artistic (rather than photorealistic) scenes which 
will render easily on 300-500Mhz class hardware.  I would be willing to 
offer a few for use in the distribution.  

A small sample of my work is available at 
http://www3.sympatico.ca/gcircle/csbh/gallery.html.  I also have 300 more 
scenes offline.

These aren't IRTC-grade synthetic photographs, but then again they aren't 
supposed to be.

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