That's an interesting idea, the 'race' idea.

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"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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> Mike Weber wrote:
> >
> > That's fine - just like to know what is lacking in the modellers.
>
> I am not so sure that it is a problem of "lacking" as it is a matter
> of productivity. I have tried countless GUI based modelling programs
> and by the time I go through the various song and dance routines
> you must do to get a few object positioned in 3D space and then assign
> material properties to them I can usualy type it out in POV-Ray and
> have done three or four test renders in the same amount of time.
> This does not hold true for everyone but it sure does for me.
>
> I think it would be fun to race someone sometime with computers
> set up side by side to see if the hand coder can beat the GUI
> modeller for a given scene.
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