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. ^.^

@indi This is some strong nostalgia for me. I wonder if they ever released a Mac version

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It is as charmingly retro (painfully archaic?) as I ever could've hoped. ;)

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