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From: David Buck
Subject: Other DKBTrace images
Date: 9 Feb 2008 05:01:36
Message: <47ad7a00@news.povray.org>
Another point in the FLOSS Weekly interview was that I don't consider 
myself an artist.  The pictures I designed where usually to test 
particular features.  Any attempts at an artistic image were somewhat lame.

Here are two more pictures I designed from DKBTrace.  The first one was 
specifically to test a new feature where shadows through a partly 
transparent object show up correctly on the floor.  Prior to this 
feature, a transparent object still had a solid shadow.

The next picture is one that I think I designed (I don't entirely 
remember).  It does show the kind of image I tended to come up with on 
my own.


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From: Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann
Subject: Re: Other DKBTrace images
Date: 9 Feb 2008 05:22:20
Message: <47ad7edc@news.povray.org>
High!

David Buck schrieb:

> Here are two more pictures I designed from DKBTrace.  The first one was 
> specifically to test a new feature where shadows through a partly 
> transparent object show up correctly on the floor.  Prior to this 
> feature, a transparent object still had a solid shadow.

Truly vintage, with their 8.3 MS-DOS filenames... from which year are they?

By the way, are you *THAT* David K. Buck?!? If so, then let's all bow 
our heads in awe!

See you on www.khyberspace.de !

Yadgar


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Other DKBTrace images
Date: 9 Feb 2008 05:37:57
Message: <47ad8285$1@news.povray.org>
Nice. They have that vintage flavour of early POV-Ray. We tend to forget 
that in those days, these were amazing images produced on a home computer. 
In a way, they still reflect (literally :-) ) that sense of wonder...

Thomas


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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: Other DKBTrace images
Date: 9 Feb 2008 05:40:01
Message: <web.47ad81fe64a9bc5592d5f5a30@news.povray.org>
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_=27Yadgar=27_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> David Buck schrieb:
>
> > Here are two more pictures I designed from DKBTrace.
>
> By the way, are you *THAT* David K. Buck?!? If so, then let's all bow
> our heads in awe!

oh, man!  where have you been?  Look here:
http://twit.tv/floss24
http://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/%3C47abb39e%241%40news.povray.org%3E/?mtop=23


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From: David Buck
Subject: Re: Other DKBTrace images
Date: 9 Feb 2008 05:47:45
Message: <47ad84d1@news.povray.org>

> High!
> 
> David Buck schrieb:
> 
>> Here are two more pictures I designed from DKBTrace.  The first one 
>> was specifically to test a new feature where shadows through a partly 
>> transparent object show up correctly on the floor.  Prior to this 
>> feature, a transparent object still had a solid shadow.
> 
> Truly vintage, with their 8.3 MS-DOS filenames... from which year are they?
> 
> By the way, are you *THAT* David K. Buck?!? If so, then let's all bow 
> our heads in awe!
> 
> See you on www.khyberspace.de !
> 
> Yadgar

That picture was from 1990.

I am indeed *THAT* David K. Buck but no head bowing is necessary, 
please.  POVRay is what it is today because of the efforts of teams of 
developers and thousands of users.  I kicked things off with my 
interests and it spread from there.

David Buck


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From: Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann
Subject: Re: Other DKBTrace images
Date: 9 Feb 2008 07:18:29
Message: <47ad9a15$1@news.povray.org>
High!

> That picture was from 1990.

Probably rendered on an Amiga, isn't it? Do you still have any data 
about the rendering time?

> I am indeed *THAT* David K. Buck but no head bowing is necessary, 
> please.  POVRay is what it is today because of the efforts of teams of 
> developers and thousands of users.  I kicked things off with my 
> interests and it spread from there.

Surely true... but every great idea starts with an ingenious single 
person! I would not have the programming skills to start such a 
project... on the other hand, probably in programming, there is no such 
star cult like it's for example in music! If I ever met Vangelis or 
Larry "Synergy" Fast in persona, I truly would be awed and somewhat 
uneasy to start conversation...

See you on www.khyberspace.de!

Yadgar


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From: Jim Charter
Subject: Re: Other DKBTrace images
Date: 9 Feb 2008 16:26:29
Message: <47ae1a85$1@news.povray.org>
David Buck wrote:
> Another point in the FLOSS Weekly interview was that I don't consider 
> myself an artist.  The pictures I designed where usually to test 
> particular features.  Any attempts at an artistic image were somewhat lame.
> 
> Here are two more pictures I designed from DKBTrace.  The first one was 
> specifically to test a new feature where shadows through a partly 
> transparent object show up correctly on the floor.  Prior to this 
> feature, a transparent object still had a solid shadow.
> 
> The next picture is one that I think I designed (I don't entirely 
> remember).  It does show the kind of image I tended to come up with on 
> my own.
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
So procedural patterns were a part of the earliest implementation?


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From: LightBeam
Subject: Re: Other DKBTrace images
Date: 9 Feb 2008 17:12:06
Message: <47ae2536@news.povray.org>
Hello David, proud to meet you here. Thank you forever !! :-)
Remember me my early renders with DKB...


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From: David Buck
Subject: Re: Other DKBTrace images
Date: 9 Feb 2008 21:55:46
Message: <47ae67b2$1@news.povray.org>
Jim Charter wrote:
> David Buck wrote:
>> Another point in the FLOSS Weekly interview was that I don't consider 
>> myself an artist.  The pictures I designed where usually to test 
>> particular features.  Any attempts at an artistic image were somewhat 
>> lame.
>>
>> Here are two more pictures I designed from DKBTrace.  The first one 
>> was specifically to test a new feature where shadows through a partly 
>> transparent object show up correctly on the floor.  Prior to this 
>> feature, a transparent object still had a solid shadow.
>>
>> The next picture is one that I think I designed (I don't entirely 
>> remember).  It does show the kind of image I tended to come up with on 
>> my own.
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
> So procedural patterns were a part of the earliest implementation?

DKBTrace did use procedural patterns based on a paper in the SIGGRAPH 85 
conference proceedings by Ken Perlin called "An Image Synthesizer". 
This was in DKBTrace 1.0 when I first released is as I recall.

We later replaced the noise function with one from Robert Skinner 
because it gave better results than Perlin's.

David Buck


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From: John D  Gwinner
Subject: Re: Other DKBTrace images
Date: 1 Apr 2008 13:27:05
Message: <47f27e79@news.povray.org>
"David Buck" <dav### [at] simberoncom> wrote in message 
news:47ad7a00@news.povray.org...

> The next picture is one that I think I designed (I don't entirely
> remember).  It does show the kind of image I tended to come up with on
> my own.

I remember that image!  I changed a lot of the textures around and fiddled 
with it, eventually making a desktop image.

You can never *see* my desktop, however, as it's usually covered up with 
windows :)

    == John ==


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