In article <Xns### [at] netplexaussieorg>, 
ing### [at] tagpovrayorg says...
> in news:MPG.19c8447522456ad49898a2@news.povray.org Patrick Elliott wrote:
> >
> > [...] if the only thing anyone was allowed to judge by was 
> > the final photo you took of it, but its a cheap trick that doesn't show 
> > your true skill, only how good you are at hiding your mistakes or 
> > laziness.[...]
> > 
> 
> Do you also tell your car mechanic that he can only use a screwdriver on 
> your car because otherwise you don't concider him skillfull??
> 
> Ingo
> 
> 

If the point of the contest is too see how many things he can fix using a 
screw driver, then yes. But the analogy is wrong, it is more like the 
difference between them fixing a dent by bending the metal back to 
normal, or being lazy and filling in every dent using some sort of epoxy 
compound and repainting the entire car, with a color that they feel is 
close enough to the original that no one will notice. If they are showing 
off a new model, I don't expect them to hide its flaws. If they are 
showing how good they are are using product X, I don't expect them to 
feed it through 2-3 different Photoshop filters after.

It is the difference between paying someone to produce something where 
the 'primary' concern is that it looks good and a demonstration of skill 
when using a specific program. Someone showing off how good they are at 
wood working isn't going to get praised when someone finds out that A) he 
used plastic and B) he painted on the wood texture. He may get linched, 
but not praised. So.. Someone posts an image in a forum for say 
Lightwave, saying 'look how good I am', and then at the bottom it gives a 
list of a half dozen things he used to post process it. How is this 
different that someone trying to pass off chunk of painted plastic for a 
wooden sculpture?

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void main () {

    call functional_code()
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    call crash_windows();
}

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