Just found this... Because there are often questions about the
professional uses of POV, here is an example.
The architectural school of Marseilles uses Povray as a learning tool
for its first year students (second year students use Radiance). They
have to make a whole project in POV, for instance a re-creation of a
whole street. Interesting pictures there (no source code) and examples
about how the students manage their projects. There's also a 114-slide
tutorial in French for download (PDF).
G.

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Gilles Tran wrote:
> 
> Just found this... Because there are often questions about the
> professional uses of POV, here is an example.
> The architectural school of Marseilles uses Povray as a learning tool
> for its first year students (second year students use Radiance). They
> have to make a whole project in POV, for instance a re-creation of a
> whole street. Interesting pictures there (no source code) and examples
> about how the students manage their projects. There's also a 114-slide
> tutorial in French for download (PDF).
> G.

Any chance you have a URL available :)

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Ken wrote:

> Any chance you have a URL available :)
>

You're lucky :
http://www.marseille.archi.fr/enseignements/enseignement.html
Hmmm, looks like I'm getting older and older every day.

G.

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On Sat, 05 Feb 2000 21:30:18 +0100, Gilles Tran <tra### [at] inapginrafr>
wrote:

>Hmmm, looks like I'm getting older and older every day.

Aren't we all? That's the one thing I hate about time the most.


Peter Popov
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Peter Popov wrote:

> On Sat, 05 Feb 2000 21:30:18 +0100, Gilles Tran <tra### [at] inapginrafr>
> wrote:
>
> >Hmmm, looks like I'm getting older and older every day.
>
> Aren't we all? That's the one thing I hate about time the most.

Ineteresting thought I just had...
what will the life expectancy of a child born in say 2050 be considering
the pace of technological development and the recent and probable future
discoveries of medical science.

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"David Fontaine" <dav### [at] faricynet> wrote :
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> what will the life expectancy of a child born in say 2050 be considering
> the pace of technological development and the recent and probable future
> discoveries of medical science.
>

    Last thing I heard is that unless there is a genetic breakthrough, 150
is about it. Something about the maximum number of times a cell will replace
itself. Recent hormone information leads one to think that much more of our
life will be spent in better health (at least where technology is
available). Example: "Old People Skin" (i.e.: dry, slow to heal) is 90%
hormonal. Presently too risky to fix with replacement therapy, but in the
future?

    Disclaimer: Most of my info on this is ~10 years out of date.

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David Fontaine wrote:

> Peter Popov wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 05 Feb 2000 21:30:18 +0100, Gilles Tran <tra### [at] inapginrafr>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >Hmmm, looks like I'm getting older and older every day.
> >
> > Aren't we all? That's the one thing I hate about time the most.
>
> Ineteresting thought I just had...
> what will the life expectancy of a child born in say 2050 be considering
> the pace of technological development and the recent and probable future
> discoveries of medical science.

I remember reading a quote from a futurist: "The man who will live forever
has already been born."

Quite remarkable, even when you consider it's from the 70s.

I plan to live forever, and so far, so good!

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Bill DeWitt wrote:

>     Last thing I heard is that unless there is a genetic breakthrough, 150
> is about it. Something about the maximum number of times a cell will replace
> itself.

Yes. Their big idea now is to make a virus that changes the regulatory gene
(which controls mitosis).

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Bill DeWitt wrote in message <389ca708@news.povray.org>...
>
>"David Fontaine" <dav### [at] faricynet> wrote :
>>
>> what will the life expectancy of a child born in say 2050 be considering
>> the pace of technological development and the recent and probable future
>> discoveries of medical science.
>>
>
>    Last thing I heard is that unless there is a genetic breakthrough, 150
>is about it. Something about the maximum number of times a cell will
replace
>itself.

They've found the breakthrough: an enzyme that repairs the ends of DNA
strands.  The only problem with it is that activating this enzyme will
increas the chance that you will get cancer.

Mark

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Gilles Tran wrote in message <389C8859.FFE4DB3F@inapg.inra.fr>...
>Hmmm, looks like I'm getting older and older every day.


This can be said of everyone, yes?

I look forward to you and work getting wiser.

Thanks for the URL.

Peter Warren
war### [at] hotmailcom

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