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.
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. ;)
@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.
@indi wow that is a very neat point light effect !