Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POVRAY) : Atari ST

[EgoShredder]

Amazing what those old SM124 monochrome monitors could do with a little magic! ;-) Haha but seriously, despite seeing many impressive graphics on PCs down the years, I still get more pleasure from seeing the Atari STE ray traced and photochromed images.

[thebigconsultant]

Jeeze. I use to use POV all the time on the STe, and it tool like 2 days to make these images and then view them at an amazing 19,200 colours on screen using PhotoChrome. lol - I work as a 3D professional

I just picked up a TT this year secondhand, and Im having a ball seeing these 'old friends' again. Check out "Atari Forum"

[AGWhiteman]

honestly at the time PCee's were only doing 256 and that was with a 'brand new machine!' Was 1987/8 ST's had Spectrum 512?

All those colours!

Someone did a high colour demo on the ST a couple of years ago.. Just got my St back with a colour TV to liven things up!

[AGWhiteman]

For those non Atari users.. you can view these picture on an STe in 15 bit colour (19200 colours on screen from a palette of 32768) using a piece of software called photochrome.. no new graphics card required! /|\

[saberblock]

@AGWhiteman Yep - Photochrome actually came on the same ST Format cover disk (came with V3, but I later got V4 from Floppyshop) - obviously it was limited to a slideshow (hence the slideshow nature of the vid). I used to convert them to SPC's to load into Spectrum 512 too. I've also got Raystart (given away on an ST Format cover disk too) that I might take a look at soon - had a GEM based object modeller which I remember as being quite good.

[AGWhiteman]

@saberblock

Yep there were several! Xenomorph, the CAD 3D series, GFA Raytrace, Neon, Eureka! Cyber Sculpt was the easiest to get into as far as object modelling goes.

I guess all these fly under an emulator like Steem or Hatari! /|\

[TheBlackSpider82]

Those thick windy cables were cool.

[saberblock]

@TheBlackSpider82 Indeed, it detracts from the fact that my ability to clip the pictures into the monitor was rather terrible (I was using a nubbin thing on an old Thinkpad) - and technically that's a monochrome monitor too...