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Has the Zombie Apocalypse finally hit? Aside from my own postings, the entire
POV-Ray newsgroups have been eerily silent for a couple of days already.
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On 31/01/2015 09:32, clipka wrote:
> Has the Zombie Apocalypse finally hit? Aside from my own postings, the entire
> POV-Ray newsgroups have been eerily silent for a couple of days already.
>
He live.
Kill, kill, kill. ;-)
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Stephen
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On 31/01/2015 09:32 AM, clipka wrote:
> Has the Zombie Apocalypse finally hit? Aside from my own postings, the entire
> POV-Ray newsgroups have been eerily silent for a couple of days already.
Anyone else remember when p.o-t used to be so busy that there were more
posts-per-minute than you could actually keep up with?
For whatever reason, it seems everybody is slowly drifting away from
here. (I guess because POV-Ray is becoming less popular; IDK.)
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On 31/01/2015 18:02, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> On 31/01/2015 09:32 AM, clipka wrote:
>> Has the Zombie Apocalypse finally hit? Aside from my own postings, the
>> entire
>> POV-Ray newsgroups have been eerily silent for a couple of days already.
>
> Anyone else remember when p.o-t used to be so busy that there were more
> posts-per-minute than you could actually keep up with?
>
> For whatever reason, it seems everybody is slowly drifting away from
> here. (I guess because POV-Ray is becoming less popular; IDK.)
I blame you for getting a new job. :-P
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Stephen
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>> For whatever reason, it seems everybody is slowly drifting away from
>> here. (I guess because POV-Ray is becoming less popular; IDK.)
>
> I blame you for getting a new job. :-P
What do you want me to say? Bukakke? :-P
I mean, I *could* post another long rant about how Haskell fixes the
stuff that every other programming language gets wrong... But clearly
nobody cares. So now I just hang out on Stack Overflow answering the
same six newbie questions every day - and so far I'm up to just under
20,000 rep. (Mostly because of ONE QUESTION I asked a few years ago
which still earns me about 20 rep per month to this day, but anyway...)
That said, I do have a few ideas...
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On 01/02/2015 10:07, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>>> For whatever reason, it seems everybody is slowly drifting away from
>>> here. (I guess because POV-Ray is becoming less popular; IDK.)
>>
>> I blame you for getting a new job. :-P
>
> What do you want me to say? Bukakke? :-P
>
I will get back to you on that one.
> I mean, I *could* post another long rant about how Haskell fixes the
> stuff that every other programming language gets wrong... But clearly
> nobody cares.
Not true. Even if I cannot join in the conversations, I enjoy reading
them. It is educational.
Did you go to Blackpool this year?
> So now I just hang out on Stack Overflow answering the
> same six newbie questions every day - and so far I'm up to just under
> 20,000 rep. (Mostly because of ONE QUESTION I asked a few years ago
> which still earns me about 20 rep per month to this day, but anyway...)
>
It is only fair that you spread yourself around. :-P
> That said, I do have a few ideas...
So I see from your first sentence. ^_^
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Stephen
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On 31-1-2015 19:02, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> On 31/01/2015 09:32 AM, clipka wrote:
>> Has the Zombie Apocalypse finally hit? Aside from my own postings, the
>> entire
>> POV-Ray newsgroups have been eerily silent for a couple of days already.
>
> Anyone else remember when p.o-t used to be so busy that there were more
> posts-per-minute than you could actually keep up with?
>
> For whatever reason, it seems everybody is slowly drifting away from
> here. (I guess because POV-Ray is becoming less popular; IDK.)
It is an interesting question indeed. What is the relationship between a
'less popular' POV-Ray (that is another question of course) and fewer
visits to p.o-t? Except for it being in the POV-Ray newsgroups, there
should be little to no interaction imho, but what we seem to see is
number of POV-Ray images /and/ o-t visits going down. I wonder about the
production of images with other programs: do they show the same trend?
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>> I mean, I *could* post another long rant about how Haskell fixes the
>> stuff that every other programming language gets wrong... But clearly
>> nobody cares.
>
> Not true. Even if I cannot join in the conversations, I enjoy reading
> them. It is educational.
Really? Heh, and here I was thinking I just get trolled by Warp because
C++ is clearly better.
(Does it scare anyone else that I don't know C++ yet I get paid to
produce commercial applications in C++?)
My favourite one to show people is the 400-line C++ module I wrote in
our application, and the corresponding 10-line Haskell function that
does the same thing and is drastically easier to read. Unsurprisingly,
my boss is unswayed by this. (But most other people are like "OMG, ARE
YOU SERIOUS??! How some it's so much shorter? Haskell must be really
powerful. I guess nobody here would ever be able to understand it...")
> Did you go to Blackpool this year?
Yeah, I was at Blackpool for 2014. We got 4th place again - but unlike
the previous time, there were actually some contestants to compete
against, so it felt like more of an achievement. Oh, and last night I
got presented with my latest dance exam award. (Not that my partner was
around... I seriously think she's got bored of me. I never seen to see
her anymore...)
> It is only fair that you spread yourself around. :-P
Like peanut butter?
Seriously - I did a Haskell VFAQ a while back, didn't I? Those same
questions keep repeating themselves. Although more recently, you'll see,
like, six unnamed users all simultaneously post almost identical
questions about "how do I update a binary tree?" or something. It's as
if somebody's setting Haskell questions as homework...
>> That said, I do have a few ideas...
>
> So I see from your first sentence. ^_^
:-P
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>> For whatever reason, it seems everybody is slowly drifting away from
>> here. (I guess because POV-Ray is becoming less popular; IDK.)
>
> It is an interesting question indeed. What is the relationship between a
> 'less popular' POV-Ray (that is another question of course) and fewer
> visits to p.o-t?
As you say, it's an interesting one. Hypothetically there should be no
relationship, but...
> but what we seem to see is
> number of POV-Ray images /and/ o-t visits going down. I wonder about the
> production of images with other programs: do they show the same trend?
It seems to be like POV-Ray is becoming obsolete - much like the vibrant
FractInt community I used to inhabit. In it's day, FractInt was the
daddy. No end of other programs quoted FractInt compatibility as a
feature - because it had the best speed and by far the most options and
best documentation of anything you could get.
Nobody uses FractInt anymore.
(Boot into MS-DOS to run it? Only uses one core? Only supports standard
VGA screen-modes? What do you mean "limited to 640KB RAM"? Why do I have
to use the "disk rendering" option to render anything bigger than
1024x768? Why does it only have 18-bit colour?!? Why can I only load and
save files in GIF format? Why is the user interface in text-mode? Why do
have the screen-modes not work on my nVidia 280 GTX? What is "Tandy Video"?)
I feel POV-Ray may be succumbing to this as well. I still use POV-Ray (I
have three instances running right now, in fact). But its radiosity mode
takes *hours* to render anything at high-quality. And the other day I
saw a demo of a renderer that runs IN A FREAKING WEB-BROWSER and uses an
unbiased render running on the GPU to recreate the same effect as
POV-Ray in *seconds* rather than days.
It seems diffuse inter-reflection is the big thing these days.
I still use POV-Ray, because
1. I haven't found any other program that can render shapes that aren't
polygon meshes.
2. I haven't found any other program that can render textures that
aren't bitmaps.
3. I haven't found anything else that's scriptable like POV-Ray is.
To most people, such considerations are probably moot. But to a
mathematician like me...
Also, I have to drawing talent. All I can do is construct interesting
functions and hope that graphing them does something entertaining.
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On 01/02/2015 12:01, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>>
>> Not true. Even if I cannot join in the conversations, I enjoy reading
>> them. It is educational.
>
> Really?
Yes.
> Heh, and here I was thinking I just get trolled by Warp because
> C++ is clearly better.
>
Is it?
> (Does it scare anyone else that I don't know C++ yet I get paid to
> produce commercial applications in C++?)
>
Well done! That man. :-)
> My favourite one to show people is the 400-line C++ module I wrote in
> our application, and the corresponding 10-line Haskell function that
> does the same thing and is drastically easier to read. Unsurprisingly,
> my boss is unswayed by this. (But most other people are like "OMG, ARE
> YOU SERIOUS??! How some it's so much shorter? Haskell must be really
> powerful. I guess nobody here would ever be able to understand it...")
>
Well I don't. :-(
>> Did you go to Blackpool this year?
>
> Yeah, I was at Blackpool for 2014. We got 4th place again - but unlike
> the previous time, there were actually some contestants to compete
> against, so it felt like more of an achievement. Oh, and last night I
> got presented with my latest dance exam award. (Not that my partner was
> around... I seriously think she's got bored of me. I never seen to see
> her anymore...)
>
Toss her aside and get a young one. ;-)
>> It is only fair that you spread yourself around. :-P
>
> Like peanut butter?
>
Perve! :-P
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Stephen
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