Hi friends,

glad to read you!! :)

Ya Kids and Youngsters!! 5 1/4" Floppies?? I even remember 8", tape drives and punched cards. I still own my first slide ruler, a log tables book and even a 9 digit "Addimult". (See my link for that, if you really dare! ;)  

hubert-schaefer.com/hubert/temp/photos/Addimult_front__websized-photo.jpg

Now, here is some more about my hyster## ehm historical background:

I never had a Bryce1. That screenshot is a pure fake.

(There exists an according faked screenshot for "ASCII-Poser" too. But I hesitate to post that ehm "extreme" nudity here. No kidding, that certain Poser image then got 1100+ hits in only few weeks here at R´sity!!! Possibly due to my promising thumbnail with fat red text "Extreme Nudity" written all over it. Imho not a true lie... I considered it somehow "extreme", for it being already Poser2 times then.) :)

I started with a Bryce2 -- but did NEVER render with it! I had gotten a Mac version as a surplus NFR package at my company, a software dealer. But I was immediately interested in Bryce and achieved to get a surplus Bryce3D version very soon afterwards, for my PC this time. Not too fast a PC, I might add. But I didn´t render much with it and immediately learned to hate volumetric clouds and nested transparencies for their render times.

Soon later I got a Bryce4 and discovered the "Inside of Shiny Spheres". These abstract images (often quite unexpected results for Bryce) were much quicker to render and much more fun, than doing "land(beep)scapes" in Bryce. Since then, I have a certain ehm reputation for doing that trippy and fun stuff. (Not to mention "Woody" here.).

Besides: I have BR 5.0 and 5.5, but migrated back to Bryce4 asap, for various reasons then.

PS: It was mostly that encouraging feedback at these 3D communities, which really boosted my Bryce activities and many scenes. Thus: thanks to all of you, whom I met over the years!! 

Lately, I hadn´t much time to render and to contribute often. Not even as a "3D Communist". Life and Job became quite demanding. But I´ll see to render and to upload some (new) shiny results here on next weekend.

Oops... sorry for that excessive babbling, but I am so overwhelmed by all these old memories! ;)

Read ya later.

Be Nice to Bryce and Cheers to Spheres,
Hubert

 

"All that we see or fear, is but a Sphere inside a Sphere."     (E. A. Pryce -- Tuesday afternoon, 1845)