>Programmatically composing mathematical primitives does only get you so far if your goal is to create art relatable to humans.
Of coarse, that is one of those weak areas you have to work around and ultimately helps define the style of povray, that incredible pathos of all those images devoid of people beyond the implied. This thread got me to install povray and start playing with it again. There is a fairly large speed increase, rendered the diffuse-back sample scene and it took 8 minutes, took hours on my old T42.
Of coarse, that is one of those weak areas you have to work around and ultimately helps define the style of povray, that incredible pathos of all those images devoid of people beyond the implied. This thread got me to install povray and start playing with it again. There is a fairly large speed increase, rendered the diffuse-back sample scene and it took 8 minutes, took hours on my old T42.