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2007-05-17	The Great Pause
	If you visit this site at all often, you've noticed that I've said very little for the last 7 months. I have to declare surrender for a while. My new daughter gets higher priority, and I just can't find time to coherently write new articles. The site's not going anywhere, but will only be updated as time allows. I have to be honest - I don't see that happening any time soon.


2006-11-28	Short Code Contest Ending Soon!
	Nov 30 is the entry deadline for Paul Bourke's POVRay Short Code Contest is coming up quickly. Paul set a limit of 4 entries, and I got 3 in before running out of steam. Good luck to everyone!


2006-10-31	Sierpinski's Triangle
	I ended up running down a few dead ends trying to create scenes for Paul Bourke's Short Code Contest and created a macro to generate Sierpinski's pyramid in the process. Not wanting to waste the effort, I typed up a tutorial on it, so take a look at Rendering Sierpinski's Pyramid. Now, if only I could get motivated to catch up on the IRTC Watches... For site news, I'm starting to migrate the site to a database back end. It'll make things easier on me since the flat-files I've been using limit site flexibility. With that, I've also added a comments section to the blog/news entries via Haloscan.


2006-10-02	Lazy, Lazy Summer
	It's true. I wondered away from Povray over the summer to work on a few other projects. Those are going into maintenance mode, so it's time to get ray-tracing again. Until I get my chops back, here some discoveries while surfing the web: Kudos to Steve for a great use of POV-Tree. The follow-on discussions are also insightful. Eero Ahonen did an interesting reflective spehere over checkered plane Very cool terrain Abe is getting amazing sunset effects Points to Michael Zier for odd crop circles Y.A.P.R.M. version 0.5 was released PoseRay 3.10 was released - and now works in Linux using Wine 0.9.21 Paul Bourke announced the Short Code Competition #4 The July-August IRTC round finished. The Sept-Oct topic is Absence Ok, that's all to see here at the moment. Move along.


2006-08-11	IRTC Watch Up
	Ok, I have linked to the March-April IRTC Watch. And now some nuggets from around the web: Jamie Vives Piqueres produced some great looking cloth, aided by ArahWeave. I have to admit that I got a bit of thrill when I saw that ArahWeave only runs on Linux. It didn't last long, because too many people will be limited to not using it :( Tim Attwood showed off some cartoon effects, including a description of how to create it. There's a new Povray 3.7 beta build, and it supports Linux! Woohoo!


2006-07-26	A Little Something To Tide You Over
	The March-April IRTC Watch is wrapping up nicely - I just have a few details to close out on and I'll post it. Of course, those sneaky guys have announced the May-June winners, so I'm back to running behind. In the mean time, here's some other interesting goings-on to check out: PoseRay issued version 3.9.0. The change log is long. The Povray 3.7 beta is in no-man's land - we're still waiting for a version that moves the time lock past June 30 Norbert Kern has done some very promising work on "growing" vegetation. See his vegetation WIP 1 and vegetation WIP 2 newsgroup posts I also find something pleasing with Shurakai's molecular beauty post.

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