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| | | (...) I have a copy sitting here: (URL) I got it by e-mailing the maintainers of MacMegaPOV several years ago. In later correspondence, they also told me the edge-tracer in the newer version of MacMegaPOV had not been optimized by its author. The (...) (17 years ago, 20-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7 —Jim DeVona
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| | | | | (...) Establishing a consistent way to create quality instructions from LDraw models on the Mac is of great interest to me, personally and on behalf of the general Mac LDraw community. If a detailed tutorial is not practical, I would still be (...) (17 years ago, 20-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7 —Travis Cobbs
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| | | | (...) You can find a command-line Intel Mac compile of MegaPOV 0.7 here: (URL) I tested it with the following command line: megapov +IBRICKS.pov I used BRICKS.pov from the above zip, and it generated the following two PNG files in under 2 seconds: (...) (17 years ago, 21-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7 —Travis Cobbs
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| | | | | I realized that in my previous message, I never actually mentioned that I built the executable that I link to. I built it from the MegaPOV 0.7 source using (mostly) the Unix settings from the regular POV source. I set it to output PNG files by (...) (17 years ago, 21-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7 —Allen Smith
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| | | | (...) Travis, This is a valuable resource to have. I'm glad to see this software isn't doomed to the dustbin of history. Thank you! Allen (17 years ago, 27-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7 —Travis Cobbs
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| | | | (...) You're welcome. I think we need to get both my Intel-only version and your PPC-only version put together somewhere. It also might be good to do a Mac OSX PPC build, since I believe that yours requires Classic, which isn't exactly optimal. Mine (...) (17 years ago, 27-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7 —Travis Cobbs
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| | | | | (...) Actually, I need a Universal binary version of the static libpng library, since I don't want to have to distribute libpng along with the executable. Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure the megapov executable I already posted is (...) (17 years ago, 27-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7 —Jim DeVona
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| | | | | (...) I see there is universal build of libpng 1.2.17 (URL) here>, but I have not tested it. From the installer notes: "Installs static (.a) and dynamic (.dylib) universal binaries of libpng, as provided by the official libpng reference release: (...) (17 years ago, 27-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7 —Travis Cobbs
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| | | | | | | (...) Thanks. I eventually figured out how to get it to build. The trick was to build the two versions separately (ppc and i386), and then use lipo to join them. Building for both architectures at once just gave an error that some of the gcc command (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7 —Jim DeVona
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| | | | | | | | (...) I dusted off my old G3, now a bone stock 10.4 system, and it runs fine (as it does on my MacBook). Jim (17 years ago, 28-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7 —Travis Cobbs
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| | | | | | (...) For reference, here is a script that builds a static univeral libpng library, and then copies it into /usr/local/lib with a u appended to the filename (libpng12u.a): (URL) In order for it to work, png.h has to be modified. In 1.2.18, line 497 (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7 —Allen Smith
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| | | | (...) The version I posted does not require Classic. It's an old CFM Carbon program (not Mach-O) that can run natively under both OS 8/9 and OS X. It is PowerPC though, so on an Intel Mac, it gets emulated via Rosetta. (But I suspect it runs faster (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7 —Travis Cobbs
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| | | | (...) Sorry. I used the command line unzip (on my Macbook) to unzip the file, and that toasted the contents. Apparently the resource fork didn't extract properly. Using a different unzipper solved the problem. --Travis (17 years ago, 31-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7 —Travis Cobbs
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| | | | (...) For comparison, I rendered m6459.png (picture posted in earlier post) at 640x480, and the times were as follows (all on an original MacBook 2GHz). Intel (command line-only) compile: Time For Trace: 0 hours 0 minutes 2.0 seconds (2 seconds) (...) (17 years ago, 31-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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