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From: Mick Hazelgrove
Date: 7 Jan 1999 02:40:31
Message: <369464ef.0@news.povray.org>
personally i think it's P of V or should it be P off V?

Mick


Bob Hughes wrote in message <36944F60.1E9114B4@aol.com>...
>Oh come on now. P-O-V (pee-oh-vee) ??
>Is Pov (pah-veh)[silent h] wrong? Only because I know no one personally
>to talk with and have no audible communication of the acronym to develop
>my pronunciation with someone else who has POV-Ray?
>Considering this thread is partly a joke, I might be beating a dead
>horse.
>Anyway, yes... POV-Snobbery to the end for me.
>Btw, wav (PCM encoded) sound file attached ;) about 107K.
>
>Simon de Vet wrote:
>>
>> Hello, my name is Simon, and I am a POV-snob.
>>
>> In particular, I am a certain type of snob.
>>
>> I am a processing snob. I believe that the only pure rendered image is
>> one that has not been touched in any way by any external editor.
>> Copyright messages make me cringe.
>>
>> I am a texture snob. If it ain't procedural, it just ain't real.
>>
>> I am a modelling snob (a rare breed). If it's coded by hand, it's less
>> 'artsy'.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Face it. We're all snobs, in one way or another. We all believe things,
>> for no apparant reasons. Well, I say this is nothing to be ashamed of!
>> POV-snobs of the world, unite!
>>
>> Are you a code snob (modellers are for wimps)!?
>> Are you a time snob (any render under 8 hours is a waste of time!)?
>> Are you a math snob (an egg is a complex equation, never a stretched
>> sphere!)?
>> Are you a macro snob (if it can be done with a macro, it must be!)?
>> Are you a physics snob (the IOR of water is 1.332, fool! Not 1.333!!!!)?
>>
>> Love to hear from you all!
>>
>> BTW, this is meant as a lighthearted post... no mean debates over the
>> validity of [FOO] as opposed to [BAR].... just good old fashioned
>> snobbery, eh? >:)
>>
>> Simon
>> http://home.istar.ca/~sdevet
>
>--
> omniVERSE: beyond the universe
>  http://members.aol.com/inversez/POVring.htm
>=Bob


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