From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] povray on p9
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:36:39 PST."
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From: George Michaelson <ggm@dstc.edu.au>
Date: Thu,  1 Mar 2001 12:23:54 +1000
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  I try to keep quiet when povray is
  mentioned, but someone invoked my name.

Not me. Arthur Ransome says of sailors:

"Better drowned than duffers if not duffers wont drown"

But I don't think that applies here.

  Anyway, George Michaelson said:
  > don't go past radiance without a look.
  > its not povray but its very good.

  This, as bwk used to say, is vacuous.

At least my content is consistently awful. I aim for a shorter
encoding in killfiles.

  Povray is an abomination -- the perfect
  rejoinder to The Cathedral And The Bazaar.
  Radiance is a work of art.  Neither can
  handle scenes of any complexity, and neither
  is fast enough for serious animation.  (Before

I don't think radiance *seeks* to be a viable animation engine.

And that it both renders works of art, and is one, seems a nice
convergeance of desire and reality.

-George
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