Tim Cook <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote:

> Perhaps he meant that there isn't a easy or convenient way to render
> blooms with POV...unless you know how the effect is accomplished, or at
> least have a general idea, there isn't a good way to use trial-and-error
> with POV and hope you stumble on the right thing, because test renders
> take so long.  Commercial applications have preset effects where the
> user can just click a button.  Probably the best solution with POV would
> be to have a set of official 'feature comparison' scenes?

I'd like to see something like
http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/addon/insert65.htm
carried further, a documentation website with lots of
short code examples and pictures, including the latest
features and the many possibilities.

Mike Williams isosurface tutorial
http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/isotut/index.htm
is an excellent resource for many of POV-Ray's features.

Christoph's tutorials
http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0013390/pov/tutorials.html
are excellent also.

Obviously a project that would include most or all of
POV-Ray's features and abilities would be extensive,
requiring a lot of work and cooperation. Maybe it's
a pipe dream, but I plan to make a stab at starting
something like that some day, if someone else
doesn't beat me to it :-).

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