[EvanAnderson]

POV-Ray was the reason that I wanted a 486 DX back in the mid-90's, and not a puny FPU-less 486 SX like my friends had.

I didn't do much with it, ultimately, but I really enjoyed noodling around w/ POV-Ray. Rendering a bunch of TGA files and then stringing them together into an animated GIF (or was it an FLC?) was a major exercise.

I recall 15 y/o me trying to explain it to the "oldster" who my father purchased the PC from (a guy who was probably in his late 30s). "No-- there's no camera. It's a virtual camera that I place in code for the scene. UGH! You don't understand!" (To be fair, this was a guy who mainly sold PCs and accounting software and wrote code for dBase/Clipper...)

[Synaesthesia]

Lol I made really great FLC files of those 4D fractals, Quarternions, which you could animate by changing the parameters. Good times