Mike Thorn wrote:
> 
> Personally, I would classify most of the HOF as "high end" quality.

Depends I guess on what you mean by "high end". There are some great 
pictures in POV, and I consider what a person can do with a "normal" 
resources to be more interesting than "high end" stuff.

*BUT* There is a whole other level. Don't know if you're American or 
have ever seen the show "American Hotrod". You can build a very nice 
hotrod with some wrenches, paint, and bondo in your garage, but the cars 
on that show are the products of tens or even hundreds of thousands of 
dollars, hundreds of man-hours, and hundred thousand dollar fabricating 
machines. I think it's completely ridiculous to *have* a million dollar 
hotrod, but that doesn't diminish my respect for the talent of the men 
who *built* it. To these guys, there are no limitations. A very advanced 
amateur might be able to chop a roof, but the guys on "American Hotrod" 
can build a new roof from scratch. They don't pick out rims, they make 
them. *This* is "high end".

That being said, there's no reason that a person or group of people 
using POV-Ray with a sufficient amount of RAM and time wouldn't 
conceivably be able to produce something high end. It just hasn't 
happened yet.

  -Shay

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