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I'm weirdly glad that the POV-Ray website still looks like this:

povray.org

POV-Ray was such a big part of my high school "getting way into Computers" memories.

I reading about Phong shading (uuuh because of ReBoot of course) and I saw this and it sent me into this deep reverie of twiddling shading parameters in a text editor.

(Ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phong_sh)

I'm simultaneously sad and relieved that I don't have any of my old renders to share, here.

You all should be just relieved, probably.

Wait. I could probably recreate some of them. ^.^

This is a recreation of the scene I have the strongest memory of from when I played around with POVRay in high school, probably because it's the first one that I just made up myself. And I was really proud of discovering the cool point-of-light effect you get by putting a light source inside an object.

Yeah, I guess I was obsessed with glow even back then. ;)

SysAdmin1138 @sysadmin1138

@indi Oo, POVRay! I was introduced to it by my CompSci graphics prof. As part of a bid to extend the science building, he asked some of us to model and render parts of the existing building. I got to build the green house! Fun project.

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