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26 May 2024 16:22:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV Ray How Tos  
From: Dennis Miller
Date: 17 May 2002 23:47:57
Message: <3ce5ceed@news.povray.org>
A bigger problem with "Bible" it that it is such a cliche. Surely you (we?)
can do better.
D.

"Mitchell Waite" <mit### [at] dnaicom> wrote in message
news:3c883f39$1@news.povray.org...
> If you do some research on Amazon you'll find that I was the first
publisher
> to use the word Bible in a computer book. Its almost synonymous with Waite
> Group. I also pioneered the How To line, as well as Primers, Papers,
Tricks
> of the ___ Masters, ____ Creations, Playhouses, SuperBibles, ____ Lab,
> Construction Kit, Interactive Courses.
>
> I still like Bible. But I would be open to something different and more
> reverent like POV Ray: From Hell and Back, or maybe POV Ray New Testament
:)
>
> "Harold Baize" <bai### [at] itsaucsfedu> wrote in message
> news:3c8544ac@news.povray.org...
> > Mitchell,
> > Please don't call it the "POV-Ray Bible". If you've followed
> > some of the discussion on "off-topic" then you know religion
> > is a hot button here. More generally, if it is primarily a
> > "how-to" then the Bible metaphor doesn't work anyway.
> > Maybe "POV-Ray: The final render" or "POV-Ray: How
> > to Create Worlds" or "POV-Ray: Unlimited Computer
> > Graphics Power"? Anyway, just something that isn't
> > religious or political ;-)
> >
> > Harold
> >
> >
> > > We have started collecting ideas for How Do I's for our POV Ray book
> > > underway (POV Ray Bible).
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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