Ken wrote in message <3922565F.9195D59C@pacbell.net>...
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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.
>


I know there is another POV user in Grahamstown (East coast) and
one in Cape town (South Coast)

The one in Grahamstown is not too active with POV, don't know the person in
Cape town

Gail
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>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'.


Some in Southern Africa. The only way to call someone in Zimbabwe is
to dial the international operator and book a call, then hope the person is
there.

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Hi again Gail, you should have another email BTW.
I'm guessing you're asking what the place is I couldn't find on the map near
Cape Town...
Durbanville is the place, and I know there's a Durban on the east coast but
nothing like that shows on the west coast.

Bob

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| Bob Hughes wrote in message <3922d0b0@news.povray.org>...
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| >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
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| >people submit them correctly.
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| What is the associated town? My local maps should show it.
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Bob Hughes wrote in message <39248230@news.povray.org>...
>Hi again Gail, you should have another email BTW.
>I'm guessing you're asking what the place is I couldn't find on the map
near
>Cape Town...
>Durbanville is the place, and I know there's a Durban on the east coast but
>nothing like that shows on the west coast.


Durbanville is about 60 km North-East of CapeTown

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Hey Gail, very nice of you.  And I don't even need to move that marker  :-)
Well I don't think so anyway, although it does look as if that particular one
is wading into the Atlantic ocean.

Bob

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| Durbanville is about 60 km North-East of CapeTown
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On Tue, 16 May 2000 17:11:17 -0700, Ken wrote:
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>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.

I'm also surprised that we don't see lots of participants from India,
and a very large number speak English and also have enough wealth to
buy computers and have an internet connection.  About 5 years ago I
saw a BBC program about cable TV in India and they said that there
were more than 250 million cable viewers in India (probably a lot 
more than there are in the US).  Whenever I've noticed an entry
from India in the IRTC it seems to be very off topic, maybe they
just have a very different idea about graphics, their films tend
to be what we call musicals.  So maybe it's just down to a difference
in taste.  

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Steve wrote:

>I'm also surprised that we don't see lots of participants from India,
>and a very large number speak English and also have enough wealth to
>buy computers and have an internet connection.

I did a search for povray and pov-ray on a dozen Indian engines. They all 
returned nothing.

Ingo

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On 21 May 2000 12:09:24 -0400, ingo wrote:
>Steve wrote:
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>>I'm also surprised that we don't see lots of participants from India,
>>and a very large number speak English and also have enough wealth to
>>buy computers and have an internet connection.
>
>I did a search for povray and pov-ray on a dozen Indian engines. They all 
>returned nothing.
>

Maybe it's time to help the garden along a bit, plant some seeds?  Poor 
chaps and chapesses don't know what they're missing. 

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>Steve wrote:
> Maybe it's time to help the garden along a bit, plant some seeds?  Poor
> chaps and chapesses don't know what they're missing.

That's true.. how about having an interview posted on some big indian news
page or something?

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On 21 May 2000 19:58:27 -0400, sjl### [at] ndirectcouk (Steve) wrote:

>Maybe it's time to help the garden along a bit, plant some seeds?  

I thought they had more than enough of the stuff there ;)


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