Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/contest.ez?contest_id=218&ShowQuestion=6069

Shameless Self Promotion, sorry ;)

Is this the oldes pic here or has anyone posted one older?

Don't worry about the self promotion bit, lets face it, its pretty poor by todays standards and in no danger of biasing anyones chances.

:)

Actually. pretty noce, looks a little dark though, done on a Mac? This one is from 1990 No Bryce, No Poser, ColorRix (for DOS) and about 100 hours work. Painted in 256 colors, it was tough in those days!

OH Jim thats grand! Yeah it was on an old 8500. But it doesn't win if its not already posted ;) is it already posted? lol

I can sort of spot Mac gamma a mile away... I don't do contests much these days, myself.

I simply meant if it was posted in your gallery, but I see it isn't, although you work is superb.

Attached Link: http://digitaldreams.bbay

Thanks! It is in the Gallery at my site, but not here. One also in that gallery (and just as old) was done in 3D- anybody ever hear of Topas? ;-)

This 19th century house was my very first 3D modeling experience in 1996 using Strata Pro 1.00 on a Mac(7200). At the time I thought it was really cool image. I look at this now and its such a great laugh. I have never really posted this anywhere before until now. *putting paper bag over head*

I used Strata Pro 1 back then as well!!! Take the paper bag off and be proud. I'll tell you what, they were a lot easier to use then this new fangled software with nodes and face room, injections and Mat files. Bells and whistles. I'd know what all those things were for if I'd kept up with how the software changed over the years but am only just returning to the 3d fold as it were.

Yes, I agree... Strata Pro 1.00 was very easy to use - it was the software that got me hooked on 3D. takes paper bag off head :-) I also faced Poser 2 during this period...at the time I remember I did not like it much - it was a little clumsy to use.

Dang... if only I could find my old "Tron" tank picture done in 1983 on the Apple 2, using only white... and created by writing a program to draw the lines. macmullin- That images looks like what I got when I played with Ray Dream Designer back in 1997. Cool graphics at the time, but nothing compared to what we have today.

oldest thing I had was a conversion of a Basic 4 minicomputer pic of Bridgette Bardot, done with *.? x, etc. Had a program from IBM that was the 80's answer to Paint, 4 colors (EGA, anyone?)was converting each flinkin' little * to pink, blue, aqua, or red..;) About '87 or so..alas, I don't have it anymore..

Don't have any of the images any longer, but my intro into cgi was writing assembly language demos on a 32K BBC Model B Micro for a computer science course I took in high school for extra maths credits (which would make it aroung 83/84). How times have changed. A simple 16 colour 400 x 400 Mandelbrot Fractal took hours (sometimes days). And wireframe models of more than a couple dozen vertices really stressed the machines real-time animation abilities. Later on I wrote some 3D landscape generators in University, then I came across an early version of Bryce and haven't looked back since. Guess it taught me patience, cause P5's rendering doesn't feel THAT slow :) -- Mark