"Chris Huff" <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in message
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> The renderer, or the scene language?
> Is the language the only thing that is important, or is the renderer
> important too?
> 1: The language is the only thing that matters.
> 2: The language is most important, but rendering engine is important too.
> 3: Both are equally important, POV is the combination of the two.
> 4: Renderer is most important, but the language is important too.
> 5: Renderer the only thing that matters.
>

IMHO 1, in reality 3, in abstract, 5. (IMHO)

>
> My choice is 3, neither the spirit of the language or the renderer could
> be removed or drastically changed and still have POV...for example, if
> the renderer was changed to a scan-line engine or if the language became
> like Lisp, or if either of them became platform dependant or the source
> code wasn't released...
>
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