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Frere (philip@griffith.dwr.csiro.au) wrote:
: In article <40vt02$8c9@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> rsjohnso@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard Scot Johnson) writes:

: >All these posts about users needing to know source code of their OS
: >and having the sophistication of a Unix administrator is ridiculous.
: >It's like a comment made by a friend of mine (a linux fanatic) who
: >claimed that all artist should know the chemical composition and    
: >properties of the paint they were using.  Otherwise they couldn't be
: >considered "competent enough" to use their tools.  

: >                S. Johnson

	There is a lot to knowing about your tools in ART.  I have taken 
3 years of Photo classes and there first thing I learned was HOW 
photographic film and paper worked.  If I don't understand how it works, 
I can't make it work the way I want it to.  True I could by a $10 
disposable camra but I would never be able to play with light.  Use 
filters to ajust how range of light reaches the film.  I am sure the same 
goes for a painter.  A painter must know what paints to mix.  Plus the 
color of paint when wet and dry changes.  I would not be suprised if the 
first thing a painter is taught is how to make paint.

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