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From: David Buck
Subject: Image for the history books
Date: 27 Dec 2013 21:27:09
Message: <52be36fd$1@news.povray.org>
Here's an image for the history books.  In "The Early History of 
POV-Ray", I wrote that I started in raytracing when I downloaded the C 
code for a raytracer for Unix from the Internet and ported it to the 
Amiga.  I then added support for color.

Here, my friends, is the first color raytraced image I ever produced. 
This picture pre-dates POV-Ray and even DKBTrace.  It was the image that 
inspired me to do better and write DKBTrace in the first place.

Enjoy

David Buck


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From: David Buck
Subject: Re: Image for the history books
Date: 27 Dec 2013 21:32:43
Message: <52be384b@news.povray.org>
Here's a slightly larger version that shows the AmigaDOS screen behind.

David Buck

On 2013-12-27 9:27 PM, David Buck wrote:
> Here's an image for the history books.  In "The Early History of
> POV-Ray", I wrote that I started in raytracing when I downloaded the C
> code for a raytracer for Unix from the Internet and ported it to the
> Amiga.  I then added support for color.
>
> Here, my friends, is the first color raytraced image I ever produced.
> This picture pre-dates POV-Ray and even DKBTrace.  It was the image that
> inspired me to do better and write DKBTrace in the first place.
>
> Enjoy
>
> David Buck


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From: Doctor John
Subject: Re: Image for the history books
Date: 28 Dec 2013 02:16:18
Message: <52be7ac2$1@news.povray.org>
On 28/12/13 02:32, David Buck wrote:
> Here's a slightly larger version that shows the AmigaDOS screen behind.
> 
> David Buck
> 
> On 2013-12-27 9:27 PM, David Buck wrote:
>> Here's an image for the history books.  In "The Early History of
>> POV-Ray", I wrote that I started in raytracing when I downloaded the C
>> code for a raytracer for Unix from the Internet and ported it to the
>> Amiga.  I then added support for color.
>>
>> Here, my friends, is the first color raytraced image I ever produced.
>> This picture pre-dates POV-Ray and even DKBTrace.  It was the image that
>> inspired me to do better and write DKBTrace in the first place.
>>
>> Enjoy
>>
>> David Buck
> 

A wonderful Xmas present for the community! Thank you, David ... and
thank you also for all the work you did subsequently.

John
-- 
Protect the Earth
It was not given to you by your parents
You hold it in trust for your children


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Image for the history books
Date: 28 Dec 2013 03:30:12
Message: <52be8c14$1@news.povray.org>
Oh, this is brilliant! The typical Amiga mood indeed. It certainly shows 
the capabilities of the machine at that time.

Thanks for this image, David, especially as the genesis of what we are 
working with now.

Thomas


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From: William F Pokorny
Subject: Re: Image for the history books
Date: 28 Dec 2013 10:24:42
Message: <52beed3a$1@news.povray.org>
On 12/27/2013 09:32 PM, David Buck wrote:
> Here's a slightly larger version that shows the AmigaDOS screen behind.
>
> David Buck
>

Very cool!


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From: Fractracer
Subject: Re: Image for the history books
Date: 28 Dec 2013 11:00:01
Message: <web.52bef4dbb13a2b2490cbcd420@news.povray.org>
David Buck <dav### [at] simberoncom> wrote:
> Here's an image for the history books.  In "The Early History of
> POV-Ray", I wrote that I started in raytracing when I downloaded the C
> code for a raytracer for Unix from the Internet and ported it to the
> Amiga.  I then added support for color.
>
> Here, my friends, is the first color raytraced image I ever produced.
> This picture pre-dates POV-Ray and even DKBTrace.  It was the image that
> inspired me to do better and write DKBTrace in the first place.
>
> Enjoy
>
> David Buck

And then the humans were converted to PovRay!


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From: jhu
Subject: Re: Image for the history books
Date: 28 Dec 2013 14:55:00
Message: <web.52bf2be3b13a2b24d19b0ec40@news.povray.org>
David Buck <dav### [at] simberoncom> wrote:
> Here's an image for the history books.  In "The Early History of
> POV-Ray", I wrote that I started in raytracing when I downloaded the C
> code for a raytracer for Unix from the Internet and ported it to the
> Amiga.  I then added support for color.
>
> Here, my friends, is the first color raytraced image I ever produced.
> This picture pre-dates POV-Ray and even DKBTrace.  It was the image that
> inspired me to do better and write DKBTrace in the first place.
>
> Enjoy
>
> David Buck

OMG! He's here!!!


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From: Paolo Gibellini
Subject: Re: Image for the history books
Date: 7 Jan 2014 05:01:13
Message: <52cbd069@news.povray.org>
>David Buck  on date 28/12/2013 3.27 wrote:
> Here's an image for the history books.  In "The Early History of
> POV-Ray", I wrote that I started in raytracing when I downloaded the C
> code for a raytracer for Unix from the Internet and ported it to the
> Amiga.  I then added support for color.
>
> Here, my friends, is the first color raytraced image I ever produced.
> This picture pre-dates POV-Ray and even DKBTrace.  It was the image that
> inspired me to do better and write DKBTrace in the first place.
>
> Enjoy
>
> David Buck
Thank you, It's a significant image!
Paolo


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