Re: POV-Ray 3.0 is here

[wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bob Wier)]

>Good news.
>
>Good news for the stereoscopic ray tracers among us. The beta of
>POV-Ray 3.0 is now available. This is the newest version of the
>very popular FREE ray tracing program. This new version includes
>atmospheric effects and radiosity. You can download the beta from
>
>http:\\www.povray.org/
>
>Happy stereoscopic ray tracing.
>
>Harold.

Yea!

I thought it was pretty imminent as the Waite Group stopped selling 
the current versions of "Ray Tracing Creations" and said they had no
plans to reprint - a major surprise because it was *always* very hard
to find (around here) - always sold out. I figured that the 3.0 was right
around the corner because they were getting ready with a new edition concerning
3.0. 

This gave me considerable heartburn because it happend without advance
warning, and I had been using it as a text book in my graduate computer
graphics class.

Incidentally, I'm getting ready to stick onto the ftp machine a 
true stereo rendering of a visual pun on the "pooltable" theme. 
It's rather computationally intensive, requiring 18 cpu hours
on our Dec Alpha for a 500 by 500 (each eye) view to be calculated.
Actually it was only 6 hrs per eye, but I had too much interocular 
spread on the initial try so had to pull the right eye in a bit so it
wasn't quite so hyper.

THANKS

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