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

Here's mine.

Rohan _e_ii

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Got no image, cause of a system crash...
Anyways, my first image was a glass Levitron
above a black box, all lying on the standard
checkered plane. Background was something
cyan like. All in all, looked much like those
reflective-sphere on checkered plane images,
though with some refraction tucked in as well.
Without Antialiasing and anything fancy it took
about 2 hours to render on a Laptop with,
I guess, 300MHz or such. :-)

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

Thank you for reminding me just how much this image has improved since
I completed it the first time. That's why I keep the old versions.

   Mark Weyer


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Rohan <rox### [at] yahoocom> wrote in news:3F5### [at] yahoocom:

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

You've got to be kidding, I don't want to see a bunch of crappy images... 
;P

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Rohan <rox### [at] yahoocom> wrote in news:3F5### [at] yahoocom:

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

Oh yes, I like this game. I'm in! Here is mine made on an 486DX2 back in 
1992. I was waithing for my new PENTIUM computer....

Hope we'll see others posting there first scenes.

Ciao!

Mart

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My first image, probably from 1989 or 1990. This was done with DKBTrace
2.12, which became POVRay 0.5 sometime soon afterwards. I originally
Rendered this on an 80386DX running at 25MHz. Here's a link to it (I'm
posting from the web interface):

<a
href=http://www.xmission.com/~pmccombs/bubbles.html>http://www.xmission.com/~pmccombs/bubbles.html</a>

Is it time for a remake? :)

-Peter McCombs

Martin Belair wrote:
>Rohan <rox### [at] yahoocom> wrote in news:3F5### [at] yahoocom:
>
>> Let's see what your very first complete image looks like (assuming you
>> kept it).
>>
>
>Oh yes, I like this game. I'm in! Here is mine made on an 486DX2 back in
>1992. I was waithing for my new PENTIUM computer....
>
>Hope we'll see others posting there first scenes.
>
>Ciao!
>
>Mart
>
>-+======================+-
> Martin Bélair [MAB]
> Montréal, Québec, Canada
> bad### [at] hotmailDOTcom
>-+======================+-
>

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

Hmm...I guess this would be the first complete POV image I've still
got, though I remember playing around with a glass sphere with a
light in it and a media-filled space and a converted starfury mesh
back in '98...

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


My first POV image, which was actually much better than my next 4-5...  Just
a link, no image since I'm at work...
 http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/2002-10-31/edge_rg.jpg

RG

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These are not my first images, but are the oldest ones I still have around
:|

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Hey guys!

> (assuming you kept it).
Who would throw away his first rendered picture? Well not me, here it 
comes...

It's pretty young compared to the ones done with DKBTrace - this one was 
made using POV 3.1 :)

Greetz,
Florian
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Second image i've made with pov. First one was of course.....
a golden ball over a checkered plane.

"Tim Cook" <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> kirjoitti
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> Rohan wrote:
> > Let's see what your very first complete image looks like (assuming you
> > kept it).

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I had to rerender this one.
The only change I made was to comment out the radiosity statements
because POV 3.5 turns it on without +QR.
Geez, guys, remember when you weren't supposed to stop a radiosity trace?

This is two planes, and a beginner's study in CSG.
circa 1998 the beginning of my pov obsession.
jpg quality is way low, so if it looks bad, I might update.

Hope you like,

Bill




> Hey guys!
>

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Program ended abnormally on 03/09/2003 14:16, Due to a catastrophic
pmccombs error:
> My first image, probably from 1989 or 1990. This was done with DKBTrace
> 2.12, which became POVRay 0.5 sometime soon afterwards. I originally
> Rendered this on an 80386DX running at 25MHz. Here's a link to it (I'm
> posting from the web interface):
> 
> <a
>
href=http://www.xmission.com/~pmccombs/bubbles.html>http://www.xmission.com/~pmccombs/bubbles.html</a>
> 
> Is it time for a remake? :)

Yes!!!

My first POV image is on the hard disk of my previous machine (486-33) in the 
bottom of a closet.  I made it in '94 using whatever version of POV-Ray that 
came with "Raytracing Creations" book.

It was a shiny ball-bearing hovering over a marble floor.  From what I remember 
the colors were waaaaaay too bright.

The oldest POV image I have on this machine was made in early 2000.

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Rohan <rox### [at] yahoocom> wrote in news:3F5### [at] yahoocom:

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

These are oldest complete POV images I can find (1992-1994), these were
rendered on the office Unix Box (486DX2) 

I would upload the .pov scripts via modem (not during business hours of
course). A daemon would check if any .pov scripts showed up in a
particular directory and would render them in the background when any
showed up, I would them pick them up in the morning. 

The Volks key and Pentium CPU were modeled with Moray

The rubic's cube was modeled by hand, it was part of a short animation
attempt where all rotations (and accumulated rotations) were generated
with QBasic. 

Fond memories and tons of hours were (and are still being) spent with this
Marvel of a program. 

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Janne schrieb:
> Second image i've made with pov. First one was of course.....
> a golden ball over a checkered plane.

Hey, my first one looks very similar to yours.

Bonsai

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Rohan wrote:
>Let's see what your very first complete image looks like (assuming you
>kept it).
>
>Here's mine.
>
>Rohan _e_ii
>
And here's my first, back in 1999 with POV 3.1 :)
http://www.hertel.no/peter/povray/1999/traffic.jpg

This is the first large scene I did
http://www.hertel.no/peter/povray/1999/theend/theend.jpg

More of my first images here
http://www.hertel.no/peter/povray.asp?pov=1&ray=3&gal=1999

-Peter
(Now posting from web interface)

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

Here is my first. Before that I had only done a couple of gold spheres 
on marble planes (no checkers!).

I think it was PoV 0.5 beta, and it doesn't look like "merge" had been 
invented then. I seem to remember that it took me 6 weeks to model.

/Ib

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Ib Rasmussen wrote:

> I think it was PoV 0.5 beta, and it doesn't look like "merge" had been 
> invented then.

What am I talking about, there is nothing wrong in this image. Hmm, 
there used to be a problem where the cylindrical part of the glass meets 
the spherical part (see attachment). This must be a new render done with 
a later version of pov.

/Ib

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Hi,


the first object I modelled in POV (aside from working throug the tutorial)
was a teapot egg timer. It turned out quite realistic. Then I did a teacup,
placed them together on a T_Stone11 plane and surrounded by a S_Cloud1 sky
sphere.
That was my first image.

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In article <3F5### [at] yahoocom>, Rohan <rox### [at] yahoocom> 
wrote:

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

Well, you asked for it :*)

Testing out SOR and camera focus.

Jerry
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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!

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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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Rohan <rox### [at] yahoocom> escribió en el mensaje de noticias
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

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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

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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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I believe this is it.  1997.  A blob, obviously; the components are at 
the vertices of a rhombic dodecahedron.  Among other things I wanted to 
see how textures blend between components.

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Hi, friends,

I've been away from the newsgroups for a while, Real Life has its
attractions!
Just saw this thread, so...

> Let's see what your very first complete image looks like (assuming you
> kept it).
This is one of the oldest I have readily at hand: POV 1.0, 1991? 92?
Enjoy!,
Brendan

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