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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Rohan wrote:
> 
> Let's see what your very first complete image looks like (assuming you
> kept it).

I don't even remember what my first scene was.

Regards,
John

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On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 20:06:37 +0200, John VanSickle wrote:
> I don't even remember what my first scene was.

I think I'm in majority with my camera-accidentally-inside-object
-blackness :)

-A

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Is that a RoboRally course?

/ martin

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My first "complete" image?

Well that's open to interpretation. I used POV 2.0 for a short while back when I
just had an old low-powered Acorn Archimedes, but I never really created what
I'd consider a complete image. Besides which I don't have any of the output
files from back then so even if I wanted I couldn't show you!

Some years later when I bought a PC I downloaded pov 3.1 and created this image,
which I consider to be my first "complete" image, and my first IRTC entry, and
still my most successful stills entry ever! :)
http://www.evilsuperbrain.com/gallery/finished/partized.jpg

Though now I come to think of it, I believe this is probably even earlier (iirc
I made it during the development of my irtc entry):
http://www.evilsuperbrain.com/gallery/misc/sea_struts.jpg

And those appear to be the oldest renders I have!

-- 
Tek
http://www.evilsuperbrain.com

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> Is that a RoboRally course?

Yes. Although I now use a different name for my project. The story goes:
Together with a friend I invent new features for RoboRally and new floors.
In order to make them look "nice" (which the original ones don't) I look
for free raytracers and find povray. After some weeks of work this was my
first complete image. The project is still my primary use for povray.

By the way: Try to figure out, what the new features are ;-)

   Mark


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Well, this might be my first image.

I know I had another file with that date, but I think
I've lost it.

Here you can see a little cup. I tested the surface of
revolution and an area-spotlight.

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3F5### [at] yahoocom...
> Let's see what your very first complete image looks like (assuming you
> kept it).
>
> Here's mine.

Here it is the 1st pov image I made that survive.
It is one of the 1st objects I made in Pov (CSG)
rendered with and without the sea surface I made.
The images were postprocessed in PS to join 'em
and to add the tittle (and to convert from png to jpg ;-)
This object was used later for my first IRTC entry
for the topic Water, which is my 1st complete image:
http://oz.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/1998-10-31/scotilla.jpg

Bye

Txemi Jendrix
http://www.txemijendrix.com

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Here's mine

Very old one, 1996 or 1997 i think. Rendered using old DOS or Win32 
POV-Ray with "halo" keyword... 3.0 i think

-- 
Denis Bodor

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Although containing only some parts of Schickard's calculating
machine I consider them as complete scenes. "Zahnrad" (.png of
course), expanded to the left and top with some more blue back-
ground for the icons, is the desktop background on my computer.
Both are a bit more than two years old, I can't remember which
of them ist the 'true first'.

   Sputnik

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