You think that assembling nodes is just settings in a software?

I have run into this before and it is a very interesting question.

Did you know that the nodes represent a visual metaphor, but that the material room is a programming language, pure and simple? The nodes are built-in functions in that language, or built-in operators like +, -, *, /. So now when I write a "program" in Renderman Shading "Language", I can do it visually with nodes, or textually with RSL, or textually with matmatic which produces nodes with then produces RSL.

Is this clear? There is no difference between a "program" or "software" written in a visual or textual language that is interpreted by another software (the compiler or interpreter), just because the language is visual or textual. The Poser material room is an interpreter and a compiler.

Do you believe that software written visually is not subject to the same protection as software written textually?

Is there something intrinsically more copyrightable about 10 lines of Python code, or 10 lines of RSL, that is different than 10 nodes?

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