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Yesterday evening two non related things happend, Warp posted "A small
problem with the VFAQ" and I had my first encounter with a WikiWikiWeb.
It took until this morning, on my bicycle to work, for the coin to drop.
The VFAQ, the french tutorial project, the discussions earlier this year
about setting up a macro/inc.file repository, the texture repository etc.
The discussion on the restyling of the Pov-ray site.
How about setting up a Pov-ray WikiWikiWeb.
For those who don't know (I didn't until yesterday), a WikiWikiWeb is a
site that can be editet by everybody. You can submit your own text, edit
somebody elses text (pages can be locked though) etc.
The mother WikiWikiWeb:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors
Info:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWeb
another example:
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/1
I have no idea how much it would take of the Pov-ray server, or how much
effort it takes for the maintainer of the site.
I think it would be an excelent place for a "community driven" and
"available source" piece of "free" software.
Ingo
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On 12 Dec 2000 14:49:15 -0500, ingo wrote:
>For those who don't know (I didn't until yesterday), a WikiWikiWeb is a
>site that can be editet by everybody. You can submit your own text, edit
>somebody elses text (pages can be locked though) etc.
So which of those things aren't available on this news server? OK you can't
edit other poeples messages, but apart from that?
Nobody says that you can't post a texture or macro in the the scenefile or
utilitis groups etc. You can post your images, comments, source code,
utilitis, animations etc.
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Steve wrote:
>So which of those things aren't available on this news server? OK you
>can't edit other poeples messages, but apart from that?
Easy acces.
To find something on this newsserver is not easy, most people probably
only can search headers, not the body. And you'd have to search several
groups.
Take for example bicubic_patches, a while ago Ron explained to me how they
worked. At that moment I thought this should be in the doc's. Where there
a Wiki thing parts of the thread could have been put up there. Editet by
visitors. Recently Rune asked for some specific use of patches. The
information this brought up could then easily be added. Without a big
effort a good tutorial is made.
Ingo
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On 13 Dec 2000 02:00:04 -0500, ingo wrote:
>Steve wrote:
>
>>So which of those things aren't available on this news server? OK you
>>can't edit other poeples messages, but apart from that?
>
>Easy acces.
>To find something on this newsserver is not easy, most people probably
>only can search headers, not the body. And you'd have to search several
>groups.
So what you're saying is that the people who post here don't use accurate
subject lines, these same people would be adding the content to the web
space that you talk of (probably adding zipped up code that you can't
search).
>Take for example bicubic_patches, a while ago Ron explained to me how they
>worked. At that moment I thought this should be in the doc's. Where there
>a Wiki thing parts of the thread could have been put up there. Editet by
>visitors. Recently Rune asked for some specific use of patches. The
>information this brought up could then easily be added. Without a big
>effort a good tutorial is made.
Again same as I said above, but I am able to search the whole messages
and groups and clusters/sets of groups (but this is no place to harp
on about a superior OS).
I'll have a look for the stuff on bicubic_patches for you and report
back to this thread.
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Messages with bicubic_patch or bicubic_patches found in them.
Some interesting stuff in here, but Ron didn't post to this
thread.
Subject: Bezier_plane_uv macro
From: "Yasu.I" <iwa### [at] po saganet ne jp>
Newsgroups: povray.binaries.images
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 11:13:29 +0900
Don't think this is what you're looking for.
Subject: MegaPov 0.6 available for download
From: "Nathan Kopp" <Nat### [at] Kopp com>
Newsgroups: povray.unofficial.patches,povray.macintosh
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 16:55:52 -0400
That was a search on "bicubic_patches" and now for a search on
"bicubic_patch".
I don't have the beginning of the thread for this one.
From: "ddombrow" <ddo### [at] vt edu>
Newsgroups: povray.general
Subject: Re: Bicubic patch with 3 corners ?
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 14:40:42 -0500
This one is about using a bicubic patch as a camera.
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 08:24:55 +0800
From: Pabs <pab### [at] hotmail com>
Newsgroups: povray.binaries.images
Subject: Object camera example
And some more stuff I'll just list them all below.
From: "Chris Colefax" <cco### [at] geocities com>
Newsgroups: povray.binaries.scene-files
Subject: Re: Looking for an Open Book
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 19:49:05 +1000
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 19:16:59 -0400
From: Saadat Saeed <saa### [at] yahoo com>
Newsgroups: povray.binaries.scene-files
Subject: viking ship
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 15:27:49 -0500
From: David Fontaine <dav### [at] faricy net>
Newsgroups: povray.binaries.scene-files
Subject: Menger isosurface
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 14:32:41 +0200
From: Jerome <ber### [at] iname com>
Newsgroups: povray.binaries.utilities
Subject: Linux + MegaPov + (X)Emacs
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 10:41:03 -0700
From: Loial Raven <Loi### [at] telus net>
Newsgroups: povray.binaries.utilities
Subject: Bicubic Line include file
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:27:55 -0500
From: Robert Chaffe <a0003738@airmail.net>
Newsgroups: povray.binaries.utilities
Subject: Quick Reference and Limits
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:59:29 +0800
From: Pabs <pab### [at] hotmail com>
Newsgroups: povray.programming
Subject: Re: Feature Idea: Rotational Coordinants
From: Daren Scot Wilson <dar### [at] pipeline com>
Newsgroups: povray.text.scene-files
Subject: Hills
Date: 24 Mar 2000 10:56:10 -0500
From: Warp <war### [at] tag povray org>
Subject: UV-mapping of bicubic patches not working in 0.6a
Newsgroups: povray.unofficial.patches
Date: 11 Nov 2000 07:35:42 -0500
Hope some of that helps.
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On 13 Dec 2000 08:08:59 -0500, Steve wrote:
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>Messages with bicubic_patch or bicubic_patches found in them.
>
>Some interesting stuff in here, but Ron didn't post to this
>thread.
He's thinking of this post and others like it:
From: par### [at] my-dejanews com (Ron Parker)
Newsgroups: povray.advanced-users
Subject: Re: Q: smooth union of bezier patches
Message-ID: <3720d6ef.0@news.povray.org>
Date: 23 Apr 1999 16:24:15 -0500
Xref: news.povray.org povray.advanced-users:88
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Steve wrote:
>So what you're saying is that the people who post here don't use
>accurate subject lines, ...
No. Not everybody has the possibilities / capabilities to do a thorrow
search in a newsgroup.
Sorry Steve, but I'm having a little :) here, thank you for proving my
point altough you intended otherwise (see Ron' post
<slr### [at] fwi com>).
>... these same people would be adding the content
>to the web space that you talk of (probably adding zipped up code that
>you can't search).
>
I have no idea if it's possible to do that.
>Again same as I said above, but I am able to search the whole messages
>and groups and clusters/sets of groups (but this is no place to harp
>on about a superior OS).
It's more a matter of abilities and decision of the user. I decided to
keep nothing from this server on my machine because of my current lack of
space. When I'm looking for something, the newsserver can search the
headers, on a per group basis, for me.
On a side note: in real life I encounter many people that are completely
WWW oriented and have never used USENET. It scares them somehowe and a
private newsserver is even more scary?
>I'll have a look for the stuff on bicubic_patches for you and report
>back to this thread.
>
Ingo
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