Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:34:30 EST, Shay wrote:
>
> > I thought I'd lost this from 20+ years ago and never could get that look
> > back. "Rendered" this time around as SVG, but the algorithm is identical
> > to the way I did it in POV.
> >
> > Made a few hundred (you've got to love parameterization) and bot them
> > out on X twice a week. Still enamored with images like this. Some things
> > never change.
>
> Excellent to see you around again - always enjoyed seeing your creations,
> and always marveled at their construction.
>
>
>
> --
> "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and
> besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

From: "Shay" <nomail@nomail>
Newsgroups: povray.off-topic
Subject: Re: I found some old POV-Ray code

Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:34:30 EST, Shay wrote:
>
> > I thought I'd lost this from 20+ years ago and never could get that look
> > back. "Rendered" this time around as SVG, but the algorithm is identical
> > to the way I did it in POV.
> >
> > Made a few hundred (you've got to love parameterization) and bot them
> > out on X twice a week. Still enamored with images like this. Some things
> > never change.
>
> Excellent to see you around again - always enjoyed seeing your creations,
> and always marveled at their construction.
>
>
>
> --
> "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and
> besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

I still do quite a bit of rendering, though it's predominantly SVG now. I even
occasionally get paid for it.

POV-Ray reinvigorated my interest in programming (now a major interest, 1500+
commits this year), taught me linear algebra, and developed my trig. I remember
asking ABX what a sum symbol was, and now I blog about math. I took a lot from
this program and this community, most of it good ;).

I still use an old POV image as my personal brand on GitHub and my website. It
reminds me of good times and good people, and my tastes haven't changed. I still
use POV-Ray occasionally for work. If you'd like to see
anything I've rendered over the past 20 years, the best place to look is
probably my automatic X feed. I don't read X, and neither should anyone else,
but if you're interested, my bot is loaded with around 1000 procedurally
generated images.

https://x.com/fsafety_llc

Great hearing from you, Jim.

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