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Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:07:32 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Allen Smith wrote:
   In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Jon Palmer wrote:
   I’m trying to do the old find_edges renders with the current version of MacMegaPov and they aren’t working. Reading through here, it sounds like the 0.7 version of the program works fine for this.

I’ve googled up and down but can’t find 0.7 anywhere. Can somone out there point me to the file online or send me a copy?

You are awesome if you can.

I have a copy sitting here:
http://bricksmith.sourceforge.net/files/MacMegaPov0.7.zip

You can find a command-line Intel Mac compile of MegaPOV 0.7 here:

http://www.halibut.com/~tcobbs/ldraw/private/megapov.bz2

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:





I then modified the output of L3P for LDView’s sample model m6459.ldr, and it generated this in 3 seconds:



The above was all on an original 2GHz MacBook.

--Travis



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  Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
 
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)
  Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
 
(...) 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
 
(...) 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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