"Patrick Elliott" <sel### [at] rraznet> wrote in message 
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In article <47d2faa6@news.povray.org>, Charles C <"nospam a nospam.com">
says...
>
>
> John VanSickle wrote:
> > Thomas de Groot wrote:
> >> "Gilles Tran" <gil### [at] agroparistechfr> schreef in
> >> bericht news:47d16636@news.povray.org...
> >>> Note that such a database already exists:
> >>> http://exether.free.fr/irtc/index.php?sub=site&lang=en
> >>>
> >>
> >> What immediately strikes the eye is the gradual decline of
> >> participants over the years...
> >> Is this loss of interest, or does it reflect the increasing complexity
> >> of POV-Ray over the years, I wonder?
> >
> > I think that the growing prominence of GUI-enabled CGI packages,
> > including freeware, caused many POV-Ray users to drift away from 
> > POV-Ray.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John
>
> I suspect you're right.  To me part of what makes POV-Ray fun is
> precisely the idea of modeling with code rather than with a mouse.

I have to admit one thing that I really like about Maya, is that you can do 
*both*.

And it is always consistent in the GUI.

After having said that, it's not easy, and I'm still learning.

Now, if we could do that in POVRay and modeler, that would be very good.

        == John ==

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