What does "P" mode really mean? What does the "P" stand for? I have heard different things?

It stands for "Pretty" - use it and all pictures you take of yourself will be pretty.

Practice! All pictures shot in P mode are automatically discarded after ten minutes, so you've gotta shoot and chimp right away. Unless yours is the hot pink one (not the matte pink one). Then it stands for Pink and will crank up the saturation of everything you take. That looks so cool. I wish I had that setting.

It stands for Peace (sign). It is the mode you use to take a photo of yourself making a peace sign... sticking tongue out is optional but highly recommended. Here are examples: http://www.pbase.com/s_parrott/amazing steve

P satnds for Programmed automatic mode. The difference between regular automatic and Program is regular automatic pretty much does everything for you except focus and trip the shutter. Program gives you a little control of things like ISO, aperture or shutter speed etc. Each brand programs a little different, so consult your owners manual for what you can do with it.

It's for "pictures" not pro! The P is on amaturecameras too sometimes so that means it cant be just for professionals. Professionals dont use amaturecameras and amatures cant buy procameras so why would they have a p on both if it has anything to do wit that? Also my grandpa has a button on the remote for his tv and there is means PICTURE in picture! Hahaha YOU ARE ALL SO WRONG! I don't understand how you can get such a highscore with answers now I found this out! QUOTE: P Single letter main command. Produce graphics output files. "P" is for "picture". This brings up a menu, unless you give the menu option on the command line. For the 2D graphics options, the view is the same as seen with the s command. For options that output to a file, you will be prompted for a filename. Some other possible options you may be asked: Display raw cells, connected bodies or clipped cells? (0,1,2) If you are doing torus model, you will be asked for a display option, unless you have already set one. Do normal interpolation? Some formats are capable of doing interpolation between vertex normals for smoother shading, and you will be asked if you want to do that. Do inner, outer, or all surfaces? (i,o,a) When bodies are present, there is an option to plot the inner surfaces(adjacent to two bodies), outer surfaces (adjacent to 0 or 1 bodies), or all surfaces of the bodies. Do body colors? This gives you a chance to color the bodies differently. If you do, the current colormap file will be used to color the bodies according to id number. This scheme is a relict of early days of the Evolver, and it is suggested that you use the color, frontcolor and backcolor facet attributes instead. Enter name of colormap file: If there is no current colormap file, you will be prompted. The colormap file has the format of RGB values, one set per line, values between 0 and 1. (This map may not be effective on all devices.) Thicken? (n | y [thickness(0.001)]) You may also be asked if you want thickening. If you do, each facet will be recorded twice, with opposite orientations, with vertices moved from their original positions by the thickening distance (which the option lets you enter) in the normal direction. The normal used at each vertex is the same as used for normal interpolation, so all the facets around a planar vertex will have that vertex moved the same amount. Triple junctions will be separated. Thickening is good for rendering programs that insist on consistently oriented surfaces, or that have problems with show-through of the backside of a surface. Choosing 'y' or 'n' will reset the thicken toggle. If you answer 'y', you can optionally specify the thickness, which defaults to the value of the thickness internal variable. The menu choices for types of output are: 1. Pixar file For Pixar format. Actually same format as option 2. 2. OOGL file This is a file in a file format used by geomview, which is Object Oriented Graphics Language. Suitable for direct input into geomview. 3. PostScript file Generates a PostScript file. 4. Triangle file A private format file, just listing data. Not much use any more. 5. Softimage file Output file in Softimage format. 8. Start simultaneous geomview If you have the geomview package installed, this command will start geomview and display the current surface. Changes to the surface are automatically displayed unless autodisplay is toggled off. 9. End simultaneous geomview Terminates any geomview program or pipe. A. Start OOGL pipe. Geomview uses a pipe interface at the moment. This starts a named pipe with geomview output, but without invoking geomview. You will be told the name of the pipe, and it is up to you to start a pipe reader. Evolver blocks until a pipe reader is started. This is useful for having a second instance of Evolver feed a second surface to geomview by having geomview load the pipe. Also good for checking exactly what Evolver is sending to geomview. The geompipe command does the same thing. Terminate the pipe with "P 9". Note that only one geomview output at a time is possible, so you can't have a geomview display and separate pipe active at the same time. B. End OOGL pipe. Same as option 9. Thanks Mr. Steven Jobbs for inventing Google! _

Pink? I always thought it was (p)rogram.

it means "piss on it, mate" mode...good to use when one is quaffing beer while shooting photographs.

I thought it stood for "Pookie."

I thought it stood for "Perki."