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Re: Lego parts for PovRay
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lugnet.cad
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Fri, 23 Feb 2001 02:45:17 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Lars C. Hassing writes:
> I've always admired Anton Raves' renderings, he is very good at setting
> the light and other POV parameters. And his parts looks great, he has done
> many difficult parts like propellers.
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> In december 2000 I asked Anton Raves whether he had considered to make
> a conversion table, but it seems he is a Mac-freak :-)
> He knows LDraw, MLCad, L3P etc. but as there are no Mac versions,
> he hasn't gotten into them.
> Perhaps Erik Olson's efforts on BrickDraw3D can be an opening.
I would like to connect my program to POV-RAY. Since BrickDraw3D aims at
being best at interactive modeling, adapting it to work alongside POVRAY
would make a natural division of labor.
Two ways to do this. 1. Finish the POVRAY plugin for the Quesa architecture.
2. Exporting POVRAY input files--probably the most desirable to POVRAY
users. For that, I'd have to discover the translation tables desired. (Or do
the obvious thing: exporting only DAT part descriptions already in memory.)
I haven't worked with POVRAY since 1994, but it was my first foray into
virtual Lego. Made my own yellow castle parts. Tim told me there were a lot
of people trying it around then, and nobody talked much to each other.
-Erik
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 | | Re: Lego parts for PovRay
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| (...) I just found out the POV-Ray license terms have changed since 1995. No wonder the plug-in was never completed--they prohibit changing POV-Ray into a plug-in.... Anyway, path #2 is good enough. There's probably some API where the user can press (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Lego parts for PovRay
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| GeoMan wrote... (...) I've always admired Anton Raves' renderings, he is very good at setting the light and other POV parameters. And his parts looks great, he has done many difficult parts like propellers. In december 2000 I asked Anton Raves (...) (24 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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