On 01.12.2011 02:37, stbenge wrote:

> Having seen your website, I must admit that your project is both very


Probably much too awesome for a single human being... with statistically 
about 35 years still to live, I doubt whether I'll live to see its 
completion! Somewhere on my website I mentioned that at my usual working 
speed, the manual completion of the 1:100,000 heightfield of Afghanistan 
alone would be complete not before 2750... and the same goes with all my 
other PoV-Ray projects, be it PoVSolar, PoVEarth, the Ilthanalg thing or 
even Port Whatmough! Probably it's just running away from mortality... 
or running away from a real life in the real world, as being long-time 
unemployed due to mental illness (in my part of the world, people like 
me are kept alive by the welfare state rather than being doomed to 
starvation), withdrawing into the virtual world of raytracing is more 
affordable and less dangerous than bicycling around the globe, building 
up a self-sustaining post-Peak Oil survivalist country commune or just 
starting any conventional career...

...and, no, PoV-Ray by no means is a springboard into professional CG 
work, I hardly ever heard of any commercial animation studio using PoV-Ray!

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

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