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About this website

Why another website / blog / personal home page ?

Well, a good question. I am not a “digital native” and no Twitter guy. Born in 1964, my first computer was a Commodore VC-20 (aka VIC-20 outside Germany). Since then, I was a developer in several languages (Basic, Assembler, Pascal, C, C++, Perl, PHP, C#). Over the years, many tools and some bigger applications have been developed.

I thought it was time to give back some of my experiences and document free source codes, modules, libraries and more.

Other interests

I am also interested in electronics (both analog and digital), ham radio (I am a licensed short wave radio amateur), photography, and many other things. But currently, I will focus on software development…

 

 

POV-Ray script for RSPROG main image

POV-Ray – what is it?

You may have wondered how the main image of RSPROG was built. It has been created with POV-Ray. POV-Ray creates (renders) images based on text files written in the POV-Ray scene description language.

Specify the camera position, the position of the light sources and some objects such as spheres, and POV-Ray generates the image.

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