scott wrote:
>> Maybe your phone is different, but my phone looks impossibly hard to 
>> do in POV SDL with all those complex curved surfaces and rounded edges.
> 
> Mabye I just suck at POV?  I just made this in Blender (sorry for JPEG 
> compression, shouldn't have chosen red!), it has *9* vertices, followed 
> by two mirror modifiers and the subdivision modifier.  Total time about 
> 10 mins, including adding some lights and materials.  No way I could 
> achieve the same in SDL, even in 1 hour.

That is actually quite impressive. Normally you'd have to model 
something like this with blobs. I have no idea how it's possible to 
construct this in a single human lifetime using only straight edges.

I just spent about an hour trying to make a torus in Blender. (Obviously 
you can just click "insert torus", but I wanted to see if it's 
physically possible to make one manually.) Suffice it to say most of 
that time was just spent trying to force Blender to do what I actually 
want it to do.

I guess the thing about Blender is that it forces you to think in terms 
of surfaces, while POV-Ray allows you to think in terms of *volumes*, 
which is far more natural.

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