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From: Tjeb
Subject: The Early Years
Date: 19 Dec 2010 04:15:01
Message: <web.4d0dcbe57dc385f8e82870cc0@news.povray.org>
So, you think Raytracing is something of the last 20 years or so ?
You might be wrong....


 - Tjeb -


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From: Christian Froeschlin
Subject: Re: The Early Years
Date: 19 Dec 2010 07:10:38
Message: <4d0df63e$1@news.povray.org>
Tjeb wrote:

> So, you think Raytracing is something of the last 20 years or so ?
> You might be wrong....

It seems you could even order an entire alchemy lab from Ikea ;)


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: The Early Years
Date: 19 Dec 2010 08:03:51
Message: <4d0e02b7$1@news.povray.org>
Am 19.12.2010 13:10, schrieb Christian Froeschlin:
> Tjeb wrote:
>
>> So, you think Raytracing is something of the last 20 years or so ?
>> You might be wrong....
>
> It seems you could even order an entire alchemy lab from Ikea ;)

There is evidence that wireframe 3D modelling tools must have been 
around even since the 15th century (apparently, 2D plotters must have 
been available back then, too):

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Paolo_uccello%2C_studio_di_vaso_in_prospettiva_02.jpg

First raytraching machines apparently date back to the 16th century at 


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/358durer.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Zentralperspektive_zeichnen.png


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From: Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann
Subject: Re: The Early Years
Date: 19 Dec 2010 17:17:15
Message: <4d0e846b$1@news.povray.org>
On 19.12.2010 14:03, clipka wrote:

> First raytraching machines apparently date back to the 16th century at

>
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/358durer.jpg

Oh, you beat me... coming up with a link to that picture was also my 
first thought after reading the original post!

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

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From: Ive
Subject: Re: The Early Years
Date: 19 Dec 2010 19:48:57
Message: <4d0ea7f9$1@news.povray.org>
On 19.12.2010 14:03, clipka wrote:
> First raytraching machines apparently date back to the 16th century at

>

Once I usually went to a pub (to drink one pint or two) a few meters 
from the house AD lived. I guess it was there where my interest in 
raytracing did start.

But beware of the hare! (*)

-Ive


(*) in-joke, sorry, hard to get it for anyone who never lived in Nuremberg.


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From: Samuel Benge
Subject: Re: The Early Years
Date: 20 Dec 2010 23:25:01
Message: <web.4d102bb1453638b756629ee50@news.povray.org>
Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:
> Tjeb wrote:
>
> > So, you think Raytracing is something of the last 20 years or so ?
> > You might be wrong....
>
> It seems you could even order an entire alchemy lab from Ikea ;)

Oh, I know you can.

 1 copy of "Alchemy and Other Pseudosciences": check!
 1 copy of "Sorcerer's Stones: Causes and Remedies": check!
 1 tweeker mentality: double check!


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