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7 Aug 2024 17:24:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: WANTED: Your 10 Best Images  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 4 Oct 2001 05:07:12
Message: <3BBC278E.38E12CD4@gmx.de>
Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:
> 

> > 3)  As for experience: so pick the "higher" category.
> 
>   Higher? Higher what? Experience coding C, or experience making scenes?
> These categories do not describe the same kind of talents. "Novice",
> "Dabble" and "Honoree", seem to have to do with using the SDL to make
> artistic images. But Coder has nothing to do with that. All we know
> coders that are also artists, but others that never made a non-test
> scene. Sorry, Greg, but I think it would worked better something
> similiar to the categories created by Ethel McKey for the "Who Are We"
> site:
> 
>   Beginner:     Just started using this software.
>   Novice  :     Knows how it works, but still have much to learn.
>   Intermediate: Pretty good knowledge, but I don't always get what I
> want.
>   Advanced:     Complete knowledge of the package, not easily stomped.
>   Expert:       Can do things the software was not even intended for.
> 
>   Not the best possible, but much more easy to understand.
> 

Although it's probably too late now to change anything, i have to agree. 
Even a simple 'beginner'-'medium'-'advanced' classification like i
suggested last time this was discussed would lead to more convincing
results IMO.  

Christoph

-- 
Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
IsoWood include, radiosity tutorial, TransSkin and other 
things on: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/


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