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Within the POV-Ray community it is customary to create an image of a sphere on a checkered plane as some kind of initiation project. But, also more accomplished artists tend to produce variations of the theme. I started the "Checkered Sphere on a Reflective Plane" project somewhere in Jun-2004. A few months after I had discovered the software. IN the past I had been dabbling with QRT on my Acorn
computer.
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I lost the sources when my PC was fried by a lightning strike. Fortunately, I could retrieve the images I made back then. The top image shows a black-and-white checkered sphere. Shortly after I made that image, I obtained a macro for a floor texture by Mike Raiford. Using that texture I created a second image showing a red-and-white checkered sphere. If you look closely at the full-resolution version, you'll be able to distinguish the results of my experiments with an oily film on the sphere's surface.
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