What if the user interface were independent of a 3D program?  Another words, what if we could pick a Bryce interface, or a Vue interface, or a Carrara interface, or a Ligtwave interface, or any you like, and run it on top of a modular 3D app with any modern feature you desire.  Now that would be something, wouldn't it?  Everyone would be happy as can be.   I'll bet in 2107  we'll look back and giggle at the way we did things in 2007.

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