Charles C <"nospam a nospam.com"> wrote:
> John VanSickle wrote:
> > Thomas de Groot wrote:
> >> "Gilles Tran" <gil### [at] agroparistechfr> schreef in
> >> bericht news:47d16636@news.povray.org...
> >>> Note that such a database already exists:
> >>> http://exether.free.fr/irtc/index.php?sub=site&lang=en
> >>>
> >>
> >> What immediately strikes the eye is the gradual decline of
> >> participants over the years...
> >> Is this loss of interest, or does it reflect the increasing complexity
> >> of POV-Ray over the years, I wonder?
> >
> > I think that the growing prominence of GUI-enabled CGI packages,
> > including freeware, caused many POV-Ray users to drift away from POV-Ray.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John
>
> I suspect you're right.  To me part of what makes POV-Ray fun is
> precisely the idea of modeling with code rather than with a mouse.  It's
> hard to explain to people why that's fun though.  I normally try to draw
> an analogy by asking something about why are hand-thrown ceramic bowls
> or cups better than much more efficiently made slip-cast or even
> mass-produced bowls/cups?  My metaphor doesn't normally get me anywhere.
> Charles

First of all, I'd like to thank everybody involved in the new completion for not
letting the idea down.

Concerning the decrease in the number of participants, we simply got older, so
naturally other things took the place of IRTC. Nowadays young people are more
lazy then we used to be, so the number of participants have decreased with
change of generation.

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