All,
my first post here, but I have been a lurker on the newsgroups and IRTC for
a few years. Hope I haven't twisted the rules too far - not much you can do
with a sphere and a plane except give it a spin through Wings3D and hope
for the best.
Joanne
http://www.onewhiteraven.com

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Joanne Simpson spake:

> All,
> my first post here, but I have been a lurker on the newsgroups and IRTC
> for a few years. Hope I haven't twisted the rules too far - not much you
> can do with a sphere and a plane except give it a spin through Wings3D and
> hope for the best.
> Joanne
> http://www.onewhiteraven.com

Very nice - like the spiky sphere. Something vaguely threatening about it. 

Oh yeah, exceptional to find a female Povrayer, btw.

Regards,
-- 
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician / Programmer
Polar Design Solutions

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"Joanne Simpson" <cor### [at] onewhiteravencom> wrote:
> All,
> my first post here, but I have been a lurker on the newsgroups and IRTC for
> a few years. Hope I haven't twisted the rules too far - not much you can do
> with a sphere and a plane except give it a spin through Wings3D and hope
> for the best.
> Joanne
> http://www.onewhiteraven.com

Spiky, indeed! I take it you're not a twin-set & pearls kind of girl? :)

Do my eyes deceive me, or is there a little iridescence on that floor?

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Stefan Viljoen <spamnot@<removethis>polard.com> wrote:
> Joanne Simpson spake:

> Very nice - like the spiky sphere. Something vaguely threatening about it.
>
> Oh yeah, exceptional to find a female Povrayer, btw.

They do seem to be rare, don't they? I guess not many women have the
patience for SDL. FWIW, two of my programming teachers were women.

Not only is Joanne a female Povrayer, she also comes from a country where we
know how to spell 'colour'. :)

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OUCH!
-- 
Alex

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Joanne Simpson wrote:
> All,
> my first post here, but I have been a lurker on the newsgroups and IRTC for
> a few years. Hope I haven't twisted the rules too far - not much you can do
> with a sphere and a plane except give it a spin through Wings3D and hope
> for the best.
> Joanne
> http://www.onewhiteraven.com
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
A "spin" through Wings and "twisting" the rules huh?  I wonder, would 
you describe yourself as "prickly"?

Jesting aside, your onewhiteraven site gives a wonderful sense of how 
pristinely beautiful Australia is.  And I assume you are one of the 
three women in the boat in the Mirek set.

I liked the earlier marshes renders.  The "evie" series looks 
interesting too.  You advertise that there are hi-res versions but I 
can't seem to get to them.

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Among other things, PM 2Ring saw fit to write:

> They do seem to be rare, don't they? I guess not many women have the
> patience for SDL. FWIW, two of my programming teachers were women.

I've read they usually have less "3D-perception", i.e., they find it harder
to reconstruct a 3D scene from a 2D drawing, and maybe to even imagine a 3D
scene. If that was true, it would be a handicap for POV-Raying.

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Jellby wrote:
> Among other things, PM 2Ring saw fit to write:
> 
> 
>>They do seem to be rare, don't they? I guess not many women have the
>>patience for SDL. FWIW, two of my programming teachers were women.
> 
> 
> I've read they usually have less "3D-perception", i.e., they find it harder
> to reconstruct a 3D scene from a 2D drawing, and maybe to even imagine a 3D
> scene. If that was true, it would be a handicap for POV-Raying.
> 
It may be more a matter of men trying to harbour such quarter as their 
own and will become quite hostile to any female who seems to challenge 
that claim.

I wonder if a female came on here and started making demanding technical 
"suggestions," I wonder how that would be recieved.

That said, I read or heard that when women and men are set about the 
task of solving the same maze, completely different areas of the brain 
show activity.  Men seem to use deeper, more primitive, or earlier 
evolved portions, women use more lately evolved layers.  The salient 
thing there for me is that there are objective, measurable differences 
in brain activity.

 From what I have observed on other digital art sites, women seem to 
chose media that can get them past technique and into content more 
quickly.  They seem to have much less appetite for technical discussion 
for its own sake.  But I may be making a very selective observation there.

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Give her a break.
Welcome Joanne Simpson!
PovCOMP #17 is no mean feat.
http://www.zazzle.com/contributors/products/gallery/browse_results.asp?cid=238502561319347601

DLM - gender unspecified

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PM 2Ring wrote:
> Not only is Joanne a female Povrayer, she also comes from a country where we
> know how to spell 'colour'. :)

You mean how to misspell it...   ;-)

[Sorry 'bout that...  Just kidding.  It wasn't very nice of me, was it? ]

      -=- Larry -=-

PS.  Welcome Joanne.  We need more female Povrayers here.  (Even if you 
don't know how to spell 'color'...)  ;-)

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