I have been away for a long time.

This is mainly because I got a 3D-printer and I was getting bored with the Povray render engine.

Then comes along LuxRender.  This is a relatively new render engine (version 0.8).  My initial trials with it showed it can do some really amazing things.  So now my interest is back to "Wow! What can I do with this thing?!"  I'll post some of those things as I learn the new tool set.