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Re: Lego parts for PovRay
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lugnet.cad
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lugnet.cad.ray
Date: 
Fri, 23 Feb 2001 03:23:30 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Erik Olson writes:

Two ways to do this. 1. Finish the POV-Ray plugin for the Quesa architecture.
2. Exporting POV-Ray 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 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 a button and have POV-Ray fire up to render a new file.

I'm off to learn about this.



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  Re: Lego parts for PovRay
 
(...) Check the command line options on the help file, I think the parameter is +Ifile.pov but I'm not sure. Leonardo (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)

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  Re: Lego parts for PovRay
 
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)

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