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From: Gilles Tran
Date: 17 Mar 2004 14:24:32
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> I think they want to use these images just to show how fast they are.
> How on earth anyone can judge that I do not know, unless they have
> another machine that is not as fast. Otherwise it is a bit like
> benchmarking with nothing to compare it to.

I guess it's only a live demo. They want pretty pictures to render for the
show. I worked with Intel and other companies on similar requests before.

> you are realy making some impact outside the cozy confines of our
> POV world. That is great.

Lots of people do in fact, and in a much more significant way. Professional
uses for POV-Ray abound, particularly in architecture and scientific
visualisation. I know of buildings, sculptures and scientific research that
were/are done using POV-Ray among other computer tools.

G.


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