Greg Ferguson
Legend!
Also, @Greg Ferguson came out with an excellent analogy of profiling vs modeling. I can't seem to find it at the moment, but it related to photography. Maybe he can chime in with a brief recap of that?
This bit of doggerel?
I think of a profiler, like the Kemper, as buying a photograph and wanting to turn it into a piece of art. It’s only going to be as good as the photograph you started with; as we say in programming, “garbage in, garbage out.”
A modeler is akin to buying a camera and wanting to create a piece of art:
- A cheap camera, like a disposable, will limit the quality of the photograph but will be easy to use.
- A medium-quality point and shoot camera can do more and can automate more and can be adjusted more but it still has limitations.
- Fractal’s modelers are like pro-quality Nikon or Canon top-end cameras, with a great lens and controls that let you adjust almost everything. You can use great factory presets or dive in and adjust and do it all manually and the capability will never restrict you, only your imagination and your knowledge and expertise will limit you. They are daunting with a learning curve but not insurmountable.
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