Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> 
>>Why do people post their POV-Ray renderings?
> 
> 
>   Maybe because this is a POV-Ray news server, and people who visit this
> server usually are interested in POV-Ray renderings?
> 
> 
>>Because they might amuse somebody...
> 
> 
>   I just can't understand what's so amusing about a PDF file which contains
> some simple numbers and lines.
> 
>   Imagine I made a post like this here:
> 
> ---------------------
>   Hey, I just wrote a C program which prints numbers from 1 to 100, with
> 10 numbers at each line:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> int main(void)
> {
>     int i;
>     for(i = 1; i <= 100; ++i)
>     {
>         printf("%i ", i);
>         if(i % 10 == 0) printf("\n");
>     }
>     return 0;
> }
> ---------------------
> 
>   Ok, so? Why would that be of any interest to anybody? Why would I want
> to make such a post? I just don't get it.
> 

It's kinda funny. Usually I open 'offtopic' and my eyes glaze over at 
the usual avalanche of postings by Orchid on topics I can't relate to. 
This nomogram thing is one of the few things that Orchid has posted that 
I *do* find I can relate to!  Maybe because it actually results in 
something visual.

Meanwhile, I enjoy reading your posts, Warp, and one of the things you 
did that *most* interested me, for all time, was a comparative series of 
  simple sort algorithms expressed in SDL.

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