bantha,

All that you say is true - I find POVray fascinating, but there's no opportunity for accurate/interesting shader construction. Since that is my passion, POVray is dead to me.

On the other hand, Kerkythea has a very powerful shader system. You can construct multi-layer shaders that obey the laws of physics with very little work. You can preview them.

It comes with several powerful specialized shaders. And it comes with an SDK, which would permit me to design new specialized shaders myself. This is really interesting to me.

More than that, I found a vibrant community there, where people are deeply interested in the construction and re-use of procedural or semi-procedural shaders. Quite a few free shader libraries are available that are of excellent quality. I think I'd have fun working with it.

I have no reason whatsoever to do CG - its just an interesting puzzle to find what you can do with shaders and I enjoy seeing other people find delight in them.

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