Joanne Simpson wrote:
> All,
> my first post here, but I have been a lurker on the newsgroups and IRTC for
> a few years. Hope I haven't twisted the rules too far - not much you can do
> with a sphere and a plane except give it a spin through Wings3D and hope
> for the best.
> Joanne
> http://www.onewhiteraven.com
> 
> 
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A "spin" through Wings and "twisting" the rules huh?  I wonder, would 
you describe yourself as "prickly"?

Jesting aside, your onewhiteraven site gives a wonderful sense of how 
pristinely beautiful Australia is.  And I assume you are one of the 
three women in the boat in the Mirek set.

I liked the earlier marshes renders.  The "evie" series looks 
interesting too.  You advertise that there are hi-res versions but I 
can't seem to get to them.

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Among other things, PM 2Ring saw fit to write:

> They do seem to be rare, don't they? I guess not many women have the
> patience for SDL. FWIW, two of my programming teachers were women.

I've read they usually have less "3D-perception", i.e., they find it harder
to reconstruct a 3D scene from a 2D drawing, and maybe to even imagine a 3D
scene. If that was true, it would be a handicap for POV-Raying.

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Jellby wrote:
> Among other things, PM 2Ring saw fit to write:
> 
> 
>>They do seem to be rare, don't they? I guess not many women have the
>>patience for SDL. FWIW, two of my programming teachers were women.
> 
> 
> I've read they usually have less "3D-perception", i.e., they find it harder
> to reconstruct a 3D scene from a 2D drawing, and maybe to even imagine a 3D
> scene. If that was true, it would be a handicap for POV-Raying.
> 
It may be more a matter of men trying to harbour such quarter as their 
own and will become quite hostile to any female who seems to challenge 
that claim.

I wonder if a female came on here and started making demanding technical 
"suggestions," I wonder how that would be recieved.

That said, I read or heard that when women and men are set about the 
task of solving the same maze, completely different areas of the brain 
show activity.  Men seem to use deeper, more primitive, or earlier 
evolved portions, women use more lately evolved layers.  The salient 
thing there for me is that there are objective, measurable differences 
in brain activity.

 From what I have observed on other digital art sites, women seem to 
chose media that can get them past technique and into content more 
quickly.  They seem to have much less appetite for technical discussion 
for its own sake.  But I may be making a very selective observation there.

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Give her a break.
Welcome Joanne Simpson!
PovCOMP #17 is no mean feat.
http://www.zazzle.com/contributors/products/gallery/browse_results.asp?cid=238502561319347601

DLM - gender unspecified

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PM 2Ring wrote:
> Not only is Joanne a female Povrayer, she also comes from a country where we
> know how to spell 'colour'. :)

You mean how to misspell it...   ;-)

[Sorry 'bout that...  Just kidding.  It wasn't very nice of me, was it? ]

      -=- Larry -=-

PS.  Welcome Joanne.  We need more female Povrayers here.  (Even if you 
don't know how to spell 'color'...)  ;-)

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Larry Hudson <org### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> PM 2Ring wrote:
> > Not only is Joanne a female Povrayer, she also comes from a country where we
> > know how to spell 'colour'. :)
>
> You mean how to misspell it...   ;-)
>
> [Sorry 'bout that...  Just kidding.  It wasn't very nice of me, was it? ]
>
>       -=- Larry -=-
>
> PS.  Welcome Joanne.  We need more female Povrayers here.  (Even if you
> don't know how to spell 'color'...)  ;-)

wow, that was a colourful welcome (note spelling). Maybe I should have
signed my name "Joe"! But seriously folks, I take the comment about a
preference for media that gets you to content quickly - I always have more
ideas than time for technique. Doesn't mean I'm not up on the technical
though...
And btw, I'm not one of the three in the boat - I was on the other side of
the camera.
Joanne ("Joe")
http://www.onewhiteraven.com

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"PM 2Ring" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

> Spiky, indeed! I take it you're not a twin-set & pearls kind of girl? :)

 absolutely not! Steel cap boots and denim, unfortunately

> Do my eyes deceive me, or is there a little iridescence on that floor?

sorry, your eyes deceive you...

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DLM wrote:
> Give her a break.
> Welcome Joanne Simpson!
> PovCOMP #17 is no mean feat.
>
http://www.zazzle.com/contributors/products/gallery/browse_results.asp?cid=238502561319347601
> 
> DLM - gender unspecified
> 
> 
point taken

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Larry Hudson spake:

> PM 2Ring wrote:
>> Not only is Joanne a female Povrayer, she also comes from a country where
>> we know how to spell 'colour'. :)
> 
> You mean how to misspell it...   ;-)
> 
> [Sorry 'bout that...  Just kidding.  It wasn't very nice of me, was it? ]
> 
>       -=- Larry -=-
> 
> PS.  Welcome Joanne.  We need more female Povrayers here.  (Even if you
> don't know how to spell 'color'...)  ;-)

Hehe - and at least Australians drive on the "right" side of the road (i. e.
left) as we S. Africans do.

God save the Queen!

-- 
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician / Programmer
Polar Design Solutions

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"Joanne Simpson" <cor### [at] onewhiteravencom> wrote:
> "PM 2Ring" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>
> > Spiky, indeed! I take it you're not a twin-set & pearls kind of girl? :)
>
>  absolutely not! Steel cap boots and denim, unfortunately

You might need them to deal with some of the guys here. :) Only joking,
we're just a bunch of raytracing nerds; it's a jock-free zone. :)

> > Do my eyes deceive me, or is there a little iridescence on that floor?
>
> sorry, your eyes deceive you...

I just zoomed in, & there are definitely some shades of red & green in
there... maybe it's an artifact of using only 8bits/colour. This was
discussed on the forum a week or so back in a thread called "24 bit
dithering", or something like that.

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