POV-Ray was so awesome when a friend from work and I were playing around with it from the CD-ROM source code included with the book. I think it was the texture

POV-Ray was so awesome when a friend from work and I were playing around with it from the CD-ROM source code included with the book. I think it was the texture generation capabilities that was the most fascinating parts for me. Rendering then as now was super slow, as is always the case because we want the best we can get on hardware of the day so we only raise expectations and pay in render times.