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  Re: Povray, the renderer, not a modeler.  
From: Warp
Date: 12 Feb 2008 11:25:26
Message: <47b1c875@news.povray.org>
Gilles Tran <gil### [at] agroparistechfr> wrote:
> It really should be repeated, again and again, that the script vs GUI 
> modelling debate is moot in 2008, and has been so for a while. All high-end 
> 3D systems (and even specialised software like Poser and Xfrog) include 
> scripts or nodes as part of their modelling / texturing / rendering toolset. 
> Some stuff is better done with point-and-click mesh/NURBS editing, some 
> stuff is easier to do through script or node programming.

  But AFAIK in common parlance that means that "renderer X has a modeler
*and* a scripting language for creating objects". Just because renderers
have scripting languages doesn't automatically mean that the scripting
languages are modelers.

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                                                          - Warp


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