Being too dumb at the time to understand the raytracing script, all I did was spend days rendering the accompanying sample pictures.
The below images weren't rendered on the ST (I unscrupulously 'borrowed' them from the Internet), but they're the samples provided with POV back on that old ST Format cover disk.
All were rendered 160x100 or 320x200 back in the day - would take hours upon hours! POV would spit out targa image files that I'd then import into Spectrum 512 - which allowed 512 colours to be displayed on screen at any one time. Which in the early 90's, was pretty swanky. Probably won't mean much to anyone unless you also had that cover disk!
Car - I remember this one took the longest by far, 24hrs +
Chess - This one also took ages 18hrs+ but it was worth the wait!
Pool - this one didn't take as long, maybe under 6 hrs
Pacman - this was also a quick one, could get it rendered in a morning!
Earth - probably the quickest one to render, could do it in a few hours
Click here for Part 2!
- "the grass was greener"
Very very cool. I had that coverdisk, and it started my career!!
ReplyDelete- Thanks for the great post, and detailed pics.... Did you really run these for 18 hours + to get the images, whoa, thats dedication! Thank you. So cool, funky and retro.
And so amazing at the time!
By the way. Check out "Atari Forum" if you like this.
ReplyDeleteI just joined a month ago, and I am having fun looking at some of the old things that made me happy as a kid. Especially music and 3D art like this. So many fun things on these retro computers, make modern ones look boring!! lol