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Gilles Tran wrote:
> It looks that there is a very good reason why there has been a Japanese
> povray book and why POV-Ray was granted a long review in a Japanese
> magazine. But what about these many Polish users ? Is POV-Ray
> particularly popular in Poland ?
> G.
There is no doubt the Japanese comprise a good portion of the POV-Ray
community now even though we have little communication with them
because of the language barrier. In recent times we have also seen
an emergence of people coming from the former Soviet block countries
(understandable) as well as mainland China. I do find it surprising
that we don't see any traffic from India and the entire African
continent is poorly represented. I am sure that the economic
infrastructures of the various countries has a lot to do with it.
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Ken Tyler - 1400+ POV-Ray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/
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On Tue, 16 May 2000 17:11:17 -0700 Ken <tyl### [at] pacbell net> wrote:
>I do find it surprising
>that we don't see any traffic from India and the entire African
>continent is poorly represented. I am sure that the economic
>infrastructures of the various countries has a lot to do with it.
I'm surprised that we do not see visitors on this news server from
India. There are a sizable number of English-speaking citizens in India,
and they also have a high degree of computer literacy and education.
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Alan - ako### [at] povrayorg - a k o n g <at> p o v r a y <dot> o r g
http://www.povray.org - Home of the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer
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Ken wrote in message <3921E3A5.B6CF05C0@pacbell.net>...
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>I do find it surprising
>that we don't see any traffic from India and the entire African
>continent is poorly represented. I am sure that the economic
>infrastructures of the various countries has a lot to do with it.
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The African continent in general is under-developed technologically
South Africa is reasonably good but behind Europe in developments.
Just getting a phone connection to our northern neighbors (Zimbabwe,
Mozambique
and Botswana) can be difficult. Namibia is better but it is easier for me to
phone America than Zimbabwe. North of those countries things just get
worse. Not sure about Northern Africa but the southern portion has very
low computer literacy (And quite low literacy in general). Only a very small
proportion of people own a computer.
Phone calls are also expensive here as are Internet costs. The bandwidth
available
is also very low, so the internet is in general slow
I would have been very surprised to see another visitor from Africa.
Gail
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Gail Shaw wrote:
> I would have been very surprised to see another visitor from Africa.
I was looking at Bob Hughes "World Map of POV-Ray Users" and noticed
3-4 blips on the southern end of the African continent. I suspect
at least one is you and have no idea who the other 2-3 are.
reference - http://members.aol.com/wrld0rigin/povwrldjpg.htm
Not so surprising is that the American and European continents show the
greatest concentration of POV-Ray users.
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Alan Kong wrote:
> I'm surprised that we do not see visitors on this news server from
> India. There are a sizable number of English-speaking citizens in India,
> and they also have a high degree of computer literacy and education.
I have had the opportunity to work with several engineers from India
and they were very competent in their profession. Considering the
current population of India you would think at least a couple of
them would have dropped in by now... maybe they did but we missed
it ?
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Ken wrote:
> There is no doubt the Japanese comprise a good portion of the POV-Ray
> community now even though we have little communication with them
> because of the language barrier. In recent times we have also seen
> an emergence of people coming from the former Soviet block countries
> (understandable) as well as mainland China. I do find it surprising
> that we don't see any traffic from India and the entire African
> continent is poorly represented. I am sure that the economic
> infrastructures of the various countries has a lot to do with it.
Note that it is very likely that the various .com, .net and "unknow" hosts
hide a lot of people from a much wider range of countries. About the figures,
the reason why there are so many Japanese visitors is probably due that there
is a Japanese pov-ray mailing list which seems very popular (and Tsutomu Higo
told me that the IRTC pictures have been commented there). Possibly, the
existence of a newsgroup in a particular language helps a lot to maintain
popularity in the community that speaks this language (of course there is a
need for a critical mass of users to create such a group or list).
G.
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I have been to Northern Africa and Madagascar.
Most of the time in rural places, there is not even electrical power
(the worst is Madagascar).
Even in Morocco, in large towns like Marrakesh or Casablanca, many homes
are
not on the phone (yet).
But they are rapidly catching up.
Besides, it's a real pain to reach someone in Northern Africa (that's a
personnal experience). Due to a narrow bandwidth, the connection is
often denied : 'Due to the high number of people connected, we cannot
get you through, please try again.
Thank you'.
lack of
people owning a computer ).
> Gilles Tran wrote:
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> > It looks that there is a very good reason why there has been a Japanese
> > povray book and why POV-Ray was granted a long review in a Japanese
> > magazine. But what about these many Polish users ? Is POV-Ray
> > particularly popular in Poland ?
> > G.
>
> There is no doubt the Japanese comprise a good portion of the POV-Ray
> community now even though we have little communication with them
> because of the language barrier. In recent times we have also seen
> an emergence of people coming from the former Soviet block countries
> (understandable) as well as mainland China. I do find it surprising
> that we don't see any traffic from India and the entire African
> continent is poorly represented. I am sure that the economic
> infrastructures of the various countries has a lot to do with it.
>
> --
> Ken Tyler - 1400+ POV-Ray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/
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"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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| Gail Shaw wrote:
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| > I would have been very surprised to see another visitor from Africa.
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| I was looking at Bob Hughes "World Map of POV-Ray Users" and noticed
| 3-4 blips on the southern end of the African continent. I suspect
| at least one is you and have no idea who the other 2-3 are.
There are 4 in the area. 2 of which are within miles, or kilometers, of each
other there near Gail.
While we're talking of this, I have a question for Gail. Email to follow.
And the one near Cape Town I have yet to find it's associated town on any map.
I can only assume the coordinates are right for many such places in the hopes
people submit them correctly.
I have to say that it sure looks to be the middle of nowhere there Gail. Sure
hope it's not too lonely. Maybe not huh, if roadways are any indication.
Quite a cluster of them to your NW :-)
Bob
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Peter Hertel wrote:
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> Maybe northern european geography aren't paid _that_ much attention in the
> rest of the world.
Believe me ... when it comes to the trouble of the world it really pays
of if
the rest of the world doesn't pay that much attention. It's still a very
nice
place to live.
Marc
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Bob Hughes wrote in message <3922d0b0@news.povray.org>...
>And the one near Cape Town I have yet to find it's associated town on any
map.
>I can only assume the coordinates are right for many such places in the
hopes
>people submit them correctly.
What is the associated town? My local maps should show it.
Gail
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