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26 Jun 2024 03:47:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: How do you pronounce POV-Ray?  
From: Mr
Date: 26 Apr 2017 09:40:01
Message: <web.5900a221819a72aa16086ed00@news.povray.org>
Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> On 5-4-2017 15:37, Mike Horvath wrote:
> > Do you simply read it like it's spelled "povray", or are you supposed to
> > spell out each letter "pee oh vee ray"?
> >
> >
> > Mike
>
> I never gave it a thought and always assumed it was simply 'povray'. In
> the other case, I /think/ the original authors would have used slightly
> different graphics like P.O.V.-Ray, although the dots would have been
> rapidly left out.
>
> --
> Thomas

I don't pronounce the P**-*** word... Being french I'm ashamed by its "cheap"
and "simpleton" unwanted meanings and also how 90es-ish it sounds to explicitly
call it a raytracer. I would appreciate it to be renamed "Persistence" only.
until then I refer to it as "the renderer that I [...]"


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