Vladimir wrote:
>>   Why? What can 'they' do, that you cannot?
> 
> 
> For Me  this can be answered in a word:
> Maths


Heh heh, I feel your pain!  Math is my nemesis.

I've been working a lot the last couple months on creating landscape 
textures in POV, and the "Desert" IRTC topic has let me fine tune them 
even more, all while getting a much better feel for POV procedural 
textures, so I'm finally starting to feel a little bit confident in at 
least one aspect of my POVing.

Since I've sworn to enter the IRTC this round I feel obligated to finish 
my entry, but if I can get it done within the next week maybe I'll try a 
POVCOMP entry. Technical it won't be, but at least I can hold my own on 
texturing & lighting.

I do like that there is no specific topic.  I've had some ideas 
percolating for a while that would be difficult to realize within a 
stated theme, this gives me some inspiration to try them.

RG