The Raytracing Episode

The Raytracing Episode: A Confession, What Raytracing Is, DKBTrace, The Overnight Render, DKB and POVRay, The Pac-Man, Anything for a UNIX Prompt, Gandalf, Supermarket Gang, Pixar's Tools, A Missed Boat With No Regrets. DKBTrace/POVRay has a website here:  http://www.povray.org/  The original creator of the POVRay Pac-Man Render:  http://vs.iki.fi/raytrace/  Here's the Pixar Presto demonstration I'm talking about (I was in the back of the room):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnFSVx7NhmM  The POVRay Wikipedia page is (as of this writing) a good overview of the lineage and aspects of the program.