"gregjohn" wrote:
> Rune might get a kick out of the host's reaction to his holographic
> projector animation:
> "If you put this on youtube, he'd have a whole business."

I'm hearing the show now and heard that bit before I read your post. I was 
very surprised when my animation was mentioned! And Chris even got the 
explanation exactly right.

> But of course someone did repeat the slur, for which I'm probably the only 
> one
> in the world who objects to, "Povray is a renderer, not a modeler."

I have to agree with Warp. POV-Ray is excellent for certain types of 
procedural modelling, but calling it a modeller will be highly confusing to 
most people. I love "modelling" with POV-Ray, and my recent Metal & Flowers 
image is a good example of something that would have been much more 
difficult and cumbersome for me to make in a GUI modeller, if not 
impossible. But the most typical modelling task is modelling *characters* 
and POV-Ray is awful at that. Sure you can make *something* - like I have 
indeed tried myself earlier - but you have to make do with what's possible 
in the program rather than what you can imagine in your head, and you can 
definitely forget all about realism.

Anyway, great radio show! It was very interesting and cool to listen to. :)

Rune
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http://runevision.com

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