I had a guitar once.

Bob

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Mike wrote:
> 
> Some people get really upset when I tell them this one:  I once went to see Les
> Paul play at a small club in New York city and had him sign my guitar at the end
> of the night.  He signed it "Mike, Keep on pickin' Les Paul."  Well, I kept on
> pickin and rubbed the signature right off!  So when I tell people that, they
> think that's really stupid and think the guitar could have been worth a lot of
> money, but to me that was never the point.

Nice story !  I think it makes the thing even more precious, since you 
are the only one who still knows what was written ! 
Aaah, guitars *sigh* !  I often pick mine while I watch Povray
rendering;
if I had a quicky crap-line renderer, I wouldn't have the time to pick
it
up so often ;)

Fabien.

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Careful, I think I see Lance coming, and he looks disgruntled... Hide,
quick!

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On Sat, 2 Oct 1999 00:03:06 -0400, "TonyB"
<ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet> wrote:

>I mentioned POV-Ray. Everyone there has heard _of_ it. My attempts to
>explain more about it resulted in instant boredom and ingnoring from the
>'nice' people. As soon as a I returned to 3D Studio, they had my full
>attention again.

The situation here is even worse. No one has ever heard of POV. When I
explain, they react in one of these three ways:

a) Can in do real-time previews of my anims?
b) What do you mean you have to type everything in?! (dumb look)
c) Do you want MAX 3?

I can understand them... if they can buy MAX for $8 (or burn it for
$2), why should they use POV? And to answer your next question, I will
*never* use MAX because I was personally offended by this software!
Besides, Lance is using it, and he likes Quake (yuck!) :)


Peter Popov
ICQ: 15002700

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Peter Popov wrote:

> Besides, Lance is using it, and he likes Quake (yuck!) :)
> 
> Peter Popov
> ICQ: 15002700

And here I thought Lance was an ok kinda guy but this really tears it !

-- 
Ken Tyler
1100+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html

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TonyB <ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet> wrote:
: I mentioned POV-Ray. Everyone there has heard _of_ it. My attempts to
: explain more about it resulted in instant boredom and ingnoring from the
: 'nice' people. As soon as a I returned to 3D Studio, they had my full
: attention again.

  AFAIK this is a very common phenomenon. Almost all people who use 3DS a
lot, specially if doing it professionally, will tell you a thousand and
one excuses why povray is not good.
  Often this happens although they have seen only a couple of (mediocre)
povray pictures and they have heard that it's a text-based program.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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Peter Popov <pet### [at] usanet> wrote:
: c) Do you want MAX 3?

  The correct answer to this is: "Yes, but I don't have the money".
  Usually that's enough to shut them up.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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On 4 Oct 1999 06:04:27 -0400, Nieminen Juha <war### [at] cctutfi> wrote:

>  AFAIK this is a very common phenomenon. Almost all people who use 3DS a
>lot, specially if doing it professionally, will tell you a thousand and
>one excuses why povray is not good.
>  Often this happens although they have seen only a couple of (mediocre)
>povray pictures and they have heard that it's a text-based program.

  Warp, I've always felt that the software, be it POV-Ray, 3DS, Softimage,
or RenderMan, is but a tool for the artist. It's what that artist *does*
with the software that counts. I've seen some entries in the IRTC that is
more artistic and imaginative than the featured images in CGW (Computer
Graphics World) magazine but they don't devote any print space to freeware
ray tracers :(

  Putting the vast resources of Pixar or ILM into the hands of some joe (or
Jeanne) off the street won't automagically give them artistic talent. That's
a quality that some are born with and others, like me, strive to develop an
eye for.

-- 
Alan
http://www.povray.org - Home of the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer

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That's what _Jimmy_ (James Cuervo) said. He said that they can only teach me
the basics, that is, how to use their software. It's up to me to get good at
it and use my imagination. He stresses illumination and texturing. He really
liked the "Running..." image by Jaime Vives. He said that was an excellent
example of what he was talking about.

>they don't devote any print space to freeware ray tracers :(

They dont? That doesn't sound right. B'P

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Nieminen Juha wrote:
> 
> Peter Popov <pet### [at] usanet> wrote:
> : c) Do you want MAX 3?
> 
>   The correct answer to this is: "Yes, but I don't have the money".
>   Usually that's enough to shut them up.

The response I get to that most often is, "I didn't pay for this.  You
wanna copy?"  I have problems with that.

-Mark Gordon

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