I NEED the great computer to win the make great work to win the contest.

A red and white checkered ball next to a Roman arch with a background of stormclouds. It's going to kick arse.

POV-Ray is clearly a weapon of deception and should therefore be banned.

And the artists responsible for that hall of fame should be shot for being better than me.

"A red and white checkered ball next to a Roman arch with a background of stormclouds. It's going to kick arse."

Make sure to use chrome and marble textures!

Does Povray have the same capabilities as Photoshop?

Does a t-shirt have the same capabilities as a leprechaun?

I'm waiting for the Eclipse plugin.

I NEED the great computer to win the make great work to win the contest.

Cry me a river. When I first started using POV-Ray, I had a 486 w/4MB of RAM and a puny 200 meg hard drive! The program came on three 5.12" disks, and I had no TARGA Viewer to see the output! I had to put up with grainy previews just to see what the heck I was rendering!

Bah, kids these days. 16 million colors, Three-Dee graphics cards, hundreds of megabytes of RAM, not to mention math COPROCESSORS! And you think you NEED a faster machine?! You're all a bunch of whiners, that's what you are! ;-)

1. Learn POVRAY = 68 Years
2. ENTER CONTEST and beat the other guy who knows POVRAY
3. PROFIT!!

Wimps. Back in my day we used a horsehair brush and paints. Applied to a numbered board.

in the office picture [povcomp.com]?
You are not allowed to smoke and,,,,,
talk into a microphone?
eat ice cones?
play darts?

apart from that it's damn fine work.
In the world of raytracing, I have never got past the place a cone and a metal sphere on a checkerboard myself. :D

The program came on three 5.12" disks

Now that's hardship - shipping you software on disks that don't properly slot into a 5.25" drive!

More amazing than the images from the contest are the fact that people have been using this program for 10 years making such beautiful images and the documentation is like 50% complete.

It does look a lot like CSS or perhaps SVG would be more accurate.

At first I thought you said LOGO, I was like "cool, a photorealistic movable turtle cursor".

Me, I'm a no-talent slug

Damn! I was going to do a slug. You took my creative idea. Somebody already beat me to a slashdotted sky-server [povcomp.com] also. Great job they did on that fiber-optic cable coming out of the front.

Hell, in my day, I read the source code, and with an abacus in one hand, and a box full of crayons in the other...

Hah! I can one up you on that one, Mr. AC. When I was five, things were so bad that we had to give computer commands to a TURTLE just to get an image drawn!

(for those who don't get it [ecu.edu.au])

As you might be aware, pov-ray can be used to make pr0n. Since us geeks only get to see pictures of pretty girls but never touch them, why not take the next logical step and look at pictures of pretty girls that don't even exist?

And even better, if the source for the picture is available, you can even modify the picture so she looks like you want her to. Geek heaven! Finally a girl we can all understand!

numbered?? you had numbers? ... (insert back in my day comment here)

At one stage I had half the planet illuminated and the other half in complete blackness.

Sounds about right to me!