To me, "not a modeler"  means, "cannot model" rather than, "is not a GUI
modeler."



Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> gregjohn <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> > But of course someone did repeat the slur, for which I'm probably the only one
> > in the world who objects to, "Povray is a renderer, not a modeler."
>
>   In common usage in the computer graphics community "modeler" implies
> real-time preview of the model which you can edit on-the-fly.
>
>   You might define the SDL as being a "modeler", but that would go against
> common usage, and would be quite far-fetched.
>
>   When someone says "POV-Ray is not a modeler", he is talking to the
> computer graphics community, and this community understands what "modeler"
> means in this context. Thus the statement is correct.
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

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