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Hello,
I've written an article about 3.7's backwards compatibility and how it compares to
2.2: https://19100.neocities.org/guides/povray2vs3
The page also goes into some detail about the history of each scene and the people who
made it, which is what I'm hoping to get some clarity on. Certain scenes didn't have
authorship information (search for ??? to find them) and I was wondering if anyone
might recall any of the missing authors, I'm also interested in linking to their homes
on the web if available (sort of a "where are they now" idea). Also, this is a long
shot, but does anyone have the crysta.gif photograph taken by David Buck and used in
crystal.pov? If there's anything I got wrong in the article or you have any other
suggestions, do let me know.
On a side note the scenes I've seen being posted to the newsgroup are really
incredible and I can only hope that my own renders will be even remotely comparable in
the future, keep up the great work guys!
Many thanks,
19100
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Those are interesting comparisons, and a nicely-made site. Good comments too.
I started working with POV-ray v3.5 or 3.6, around 2004(?). I missed a lot of
the early renders and experiments.
For your "Cluster of mirrored spheres" entry (cluster.pov), you mentioned not
knowing the author. The closest possibility I could come up with was here...
https://archive.org/details/max_photos_2500/3D%27S/BALLS8.GIF
It looks like a collection of very early raytracing renders, some made in DKB
Trace. Scroll through the images to 27, 28 and 29. One of those says "Andy Fu".
although it was apparently rendered in a program called RAYSHADE.
I've attached the GIF image here.
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Attachments:
Download 'balls8.gif' (135 KB)
Preview of image 'balls8.gif'
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Thank you for the feedback Kenneth, and good job finding Cluster (I'll have to look
through that collection, most of it is new to me too). If you don't mind I would like
to put you as a contributor when the article is updated.
Never heard of Rayshade before, though it looks like it's still being maintained:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/rayshade/
Not dissimilar to POV-Ray it seems, I'll have to poke around at some point.
On Fri, 26 May 2023 15:38:45 EDT
"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmail com> wrote:
> Those are interesting comparisons, and a nicely-made site. Good comments too.
>
> I started working with POV-ray v3.5 or 3.6, around 2004(?). I missed a lot of
> the early renders and experiments.
>
> For your "Cluster of mirrored spheres" entry (cluster.pov), you mentioned not
> knowing the author. The closest possibility I could come up with was here...
>
> https://archive.org/details/max_photos_2500/3D%27S/BALLS8.GIF
>
> It looks like a collection of very early raytracing renders, some made in DKB
> Trace. Scroll through the images to 27, 28 and 29. One of those says "Andy Fu".
> although it was apparently rendered in a program called RAYSHADE.
>
> I've attached the GIF image here.
>
>
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