<DIV>From: Jason Cunliffe <JASONIC@NOMADICS.ORG><BR></DIV>
<DIV>> Not knowing much about this at a code level, but I thinking more <BR>> than <BR>> ever that it may be a *really* good idea you look hard at Blender.<BR>> I've posted edu-sig several times previously, little or no <BR>> feedback. </DIV>
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<DIV>I have looked at Blender, and am aware - in broad terms - at the</DIV>
<DIV>strength of the surrounding community. And have some across Blender</DIV>
<DIV>used in serious educational settings as well. </DIV>
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<DIV>It's just a different beast than vpython. My commitment to vpython is in some</DIV>
<DIV>sense a commitment to lightweight simplicity where lightweight simplicity will do.</DIV>
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<DIV>It's the same song I have been singing here from day one.</DIV>
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<DIV>Maybe I am a moralist, puritan on these matters. There is something</DIV>
<DIV>gluttonous, and in contradiction to the kind of principles we should be</DIV>
<DIV>promoting in an educational setting, by not emphasizing the just enough</DIV>
<DIV>to get the job done, and nothing more. And our tools should be</DIV>
<DIV>setting some example. Less *is* more would make a good norm,</DIV>
<DIV>with the exception to that rule needing to find a justification for itself.</DIV>
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<DIV>Seems like we have migrated to the opposite of that way of thinking in</DIV>
<DIV>many ways. I celebrate technology less than you do, I think, because</DIV>
<DIV>I hold it responsible for a good amount of this particular kind of damage.. </DIV>
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<DIV>There are solutions to limiting that damage, but damn it, none of them are </DIV>
<DIV>themselves technology based. Which seems, almost by definition, to make </DIV>
<DIV>them uninteresting, off-topic, anti-progressive, etc. When of course I see just the opposite being</DIV>
<DIV>true. How did we get here? </DIV>
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<DIV>I am not contrarian just ot be so. Its coming from belief, and that belief</DIV>
<DIV>is coming from deep within my sensibility. I am stuck with my sensibility, but</DIV>
<DIV>have no reason to disrespect it. So that is the commitment I think you are </DIV>
<DIV>seeing with me and vpython. And I am surprised you don't understand that</DIV>
<DIV>after hearing me spout off here for as long as I have.</DIV>
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<DIV>The geometry with which I am fascinated is all about the universe of</DIV>
<DIV>exploration that can be done essentially limited to the concepts</DIV>
<DIV>"point", "line", "plane". It has kept me intellectually busy for some time, </DIV>
<DIV>with some help from python, vpython, and a good deal of reading and a good deal of</DIV>
<DIV>working at it. </DIV>
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<DIV>Those tools are less than adequate for those exploring what exactly?</DIV>
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<DIV>Art</DIV>
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