i'd say it's somewhat relevant in that it popularized the idea to a new generation of folks (like me) who'd never heard of it before. spent hours with pov-ray

i'd say it's somewhat relevant in that it popularized the idea to a new generation of folks (like me) who'd never heard of it before. spent hours with pov-ray as a kid (well... minutes, then hours waiting). didn't know at the time it wasn't 'new' (it was 'new' to me), but also AFAIK there were no other moderately affordable home computing systems where this was possible. maybe it was a thing on ms-dos clones of the late 80s and I just missed it there?