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"This is the home of the finest collection of ray-traced puzzles rendered with POV-Ray. You will see photo-realistic images of chinese throwing stars, telescopes, and golf balls . Also includes Rubik's Cube, The Snake Cube, Rubik's Revenge, The Pyraminx, The Tangram, and other related puzzles. Thumbnails allow quick previews. No modellers were used. Also has some BMRT images.">
<title>
Ray Traced Puzzles - ACD History
</title>
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<p class="menu">
<a class="top"
href="bmrt.htm">Bmrt</a> <a class="top"
href="povray.htm">PovRay</a> <a class="top"
href="index.htm">Blender</a> <a class="top"
href="anim.htm">Anim</a> <a class="top"
href="photo.htm">Photo</a> <a class="top"
href="info.htm">Info</a>
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<p class="title">
A really short history of how I became involved<br>
with Ray Tracing and Graphics
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<hr>
<p>
Sometime around 1991, I was <a href=
"http://www.nls.fi/~vsaari/raytrace/jpeg/pacman.jpeg"><img src=
"thumb/pacman.gif"
alt="Pacman.jpg"
align="right"
border="0"
hspace="10"
vspace="5"
width="134"
height="110"></a>at my friend's house and he downloaded this PacMan
scene (Copyright © 1991 <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Ville
Saari</a>) from a local BBS in South Jersey with his new 2400 BPS
modem. I did not have a computer at that time and I did not even know
that POV-Ray existed, but the image completely amazed me. I wouldn't
see another ray-traced image for several more years.
</p>
<hr>
<p>
In 1994, I saw this ice cream scene<a href=
"http://www.povray.org/ftp/pub/povray/Hall-Of-Fame/sundae.gif"><img src=
"thumb/sundae.gif"
alt="Sundae.gif"
align="left"
border="0"
hspace="10"
vspace="5"
width="134"
height="110"></a> (Copyright © 1994 <a href=
"mailto:[email protected]">Robert A. Mickelsen</a>) in CompuServe Magazine. I
read the article abount POV-Ray and downloaded the program
immediately. After reading the docs and playing with the examples, I
ran into Pacman.pov and I remembered that I saw it years ago. Now it
all started to fall in place. These images inspired me to create the
puzzle models that you can see on the gallery page.
</p>
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