Philippe Lhoste wrote:
> 
> What's the use?
> 
> - Show a friend what is a ray-tracer from his house.

Can be done more quickly with POV-Ray and a test scene on a CD-ROM.

Five minutes to install, one minute to demonstrate the render.

> - Try before you buy, er, download... You can copy some code snippets
> from the Internet and see what they look like.

A snippet from one of the groups can be cut-and-pasted into POV-Ray
(which every real user has running all the time anyway).  A major
scene file, available for download, should have an accompanying .JPG
or three.

> - Continue your favorite activity even on the move, from any Internet
> cafe...

A laptop with POV-Ray does the trick.  Back in September I was
modeling a birthday cake in the departure lounge at Philly IA.

> Of course, you need a very robust server... :-)

Wouldn't be enough use to justify the trouble.

Regards,
John

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