On 11/21/2015 10:06 PM, clipka wrote:
> Am 21.11.2015 um 20:19 schrieb Stephen:
>> On 11/21/2015 2:14 PM, LanuHum wrote:
>>> You want to have the adequate editor for Povray?
>>> My experience shows that you aren't interested in it!
>>
>> Some history:
>>
>> For a lot of people, PovRay was a "scripting" program and using a GUI
>> was a cheat.
>> Note. I am not saying that Clipka thinks that. But it is how PovRay grew
>> up.
>
> It all depends on whether you view the creation of a scene as an
> intellectual challenge or just a means to an end.
>

That, I think, is the crux of the matter.


> POV-Ray with its extensive scripting language can cater to both, but in
> the former case using GUI modelling software must indeed be considered
> cheating,

That is certainly how the "pure coders" came across.

while in the latter case it must be considered one of the most
> rational things to do.
>

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before 
breakfast. ;-)

I prefer using a GUI so that I can visualise the scene. The intellectual 
challenge comes from trying to shoehorn the correct code into the modeller.


> I consider both approaches valid in and of themselves.
>

So do I and I must say that, IIRC, you have never said "RTFM" which was 
a favourite rejoinder to newbies when I started using PovRay.

-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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