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Re: LDlite 1.6 problems
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:34:10 GMT
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Paul Gyugyi <paul@gyugyi.com> writes:
> The investment would perhaps have been better spent, for example,
> tweaking POV to do edge highlighting
Now that's an interesting idea. There is much information in the DAT
files which is discarded when converting with L3P, namely all the type 2
and type 5 lines. Being able to incorporate this information will
probably make more informative images. Right now, I think that LDLITE'd
images have more details than raytraced ones, and are thus better suited
for model instructions.
But POV-Ray is probably made to make realistic images, and incorporating
edge highlighting will not make an image look realistic. I have no idea
how one would go ahead to include edge highlighting in POV-Ray, but then
again, I'm not that familiar with the raytracer.
Right now, I feel that LDLITE and L3P have their own two niches:
Informative images like the ones presented in the LEGO instruction
leaflets can be produced with LDLITE, and photorealistic images with
L3P.
One feature I would like to see in an LDLITE style renderer is
anti-aliasing, but I have no idea how this could be done.
Fredrik
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| (...) Similar to how I added it to rayshade (for examples, see the instruction sheets at the bottom of: (URL) (...) Easy: have the internal bitmap be twice as wide and high, and shrink it down to display on the screen, blending the pixels together. (...) (25 years ago, 7-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| Because I'm evaluating where to invest my available time. As an investment in open source, LDLite has paid off OK. It's generated some "interest": others have contributed to the code, we've seen remarkable speed increases, and a few other programs (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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