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John VanSickle wrote:
> Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> "Gilles Tran" <gil### [at] agroparistech fr> 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. It's
hard to explain to people why that's fun though. I normally try to draw
an analogy by asking something about why are hand-thrown ceramic bowls
or cups better than much more efficiently made slip-cast or even
mass-produced bowls/cups? My metaphor doesn't normally get me anywhere.
Charles
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