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by icf80 731 days ago
this is old as me

play it with a long time ago ~20 years

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It's 29 years for me. It's my first 3D rendering software.
Me too, oof
Would you mind sharing some detail?
While I can't know what the parent-parent post meant, POV Ray is around for over 30 years and was popular in the early 2000's on the internet as well, and is fun to play around with, I remember people posting renderings on forums like gamedev.net etc...
Also reminded me of the internet ray tracing competition https://www.irtc.org/ where many submissions would’ve been produced using POV Ray.
I really appreciate seeing things that are named after the Internet as part of the exuberance of being able to do or share them on a worldwide network. Naming something after the Internet itself is probably most common in the 1990s.
Participed once, and ranked low... I could only dream about the skill level of our french master Mr Tran.