And it took me since 2007 to finally track down the original source of the Slope
texture shell which has been so very useful to me [pouring through backup cd's,
zipdisks, and etc.. until I found my copy of the scene file], but now that I
have, it is time to give credit where it is due.
Bob Hughes [anyone else remember him?] posted this:
http://203.29.75.35/povray.binaries.animations/thread/%3C3982effb@news.povray.org%3E/?ttop=295282&toff=1400

From which I extracted what would become the basis of all of my slope based
textures.

Ian

"[GDS|Entropy]" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Here are the first three of a decent number of textures being produced to be
> used with my coating macros [corrosion/moss-vine/ice-icicles-slush-snow/bla
> bla].
>
> I just wanted to give a status update on the progress of this since that is only
> fair to the folks who have contributed texture elements or otherwise helped make
> this happen in one way or another over the years [I do not know why I only use
> POV in the winter].
>
> The macros I make are not really intended to be any sort of art on their own, no
> more than oil paints are to a finished work, but instead are offered as tools
> for others.
>
> The two S.E. Day SSLT texture derivations take little time to render [on the
> order of 1-2 hours], but the one on the far right took over 11 days on the
> machine listed at the end, with the programs running below that.
>
> The macro which produced the coating can accept an array of parameters, and if
> your machine is beast enough you can texture each array row separately,
> including interior. But good god its slow.
>
> All I know is my next machine will have a second x5660 and another 24gb in this:
> http://www.evga.com/articles/00537/
>
> Machine:
> Xeon 5660DP [6 core/12 hyper threading/2.8ghz] (only $400 lol!)
>
http://ark.intel.com/products/47921/Intel-Xeon-Processor-X5660-(12M-Cache-2_80-GHz-6_40-GTs-Intel-QPI)
> in an Intel DX58SO2 with 24gb Kingston DDR3 triple channel matched set and SLI
> NVidia cards having more RAM than I'll ever need.
>
> Software overhead:
> 4 other rendering instances of POV-Ray, 1 of Mathematica, 50+ Chrome tabs, 8ish
> instances of VS2010-2013 Ultimate, Processing, IntelliJ, UE Studio, etc..

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