"scott" <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:

> > And what you call a "side effect". There are many ways of creating 3-D
> > graphics.
> > Is POV now only for photo-realists? Csn't us fractalized unrealists play
> > with it
> > too?
>
> Sure, but don't expect the POV developers to sacrifice the core performance
> (on rendering realistically lit 3D scenes) to make it easier for various
> "side effect" to work easier.

I remember way back to the early POV message boards on CIS when POV was called
the "stone soup group". There were fractint people and cartoon animation people
and weird but beautiful geometric sculptors  and map-makers and glow-light
people and whomever who loved POV not just as a way of photocopying "scenes" but
as a way of using that kind of simulation to create pictures of things they
imagined that could not otherwise ever be seen. If you take a limited view, you
can't see its limited possibility.

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