"John VanSickle" <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> 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.

The idea was to not install PoV-Ray, for various reasons: the friend is
reluctant to install it, it doesn't has the room for this (14MB, consuming
43MB on a FAT16...), you may have not the CD-Rom handy, etc.

> > - 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.

"before you download" the PoV-Ray package, not the snippet. Again, a merre
8MB download, there are still some analog modems, you know.

> > - 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.

I cannot afford a laptop...

> > Of course, you need a very robust server... :-)
>
> Wouldn't be enough use to justify the trouble.

Well, it seems somebody else though otherwise :-) The BadCheese server farm
is quite impressive...

Regards.

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Philippe Lhoste (Paris -- France)
Professional programmer and amateur artist
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