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- From: dudley@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (D U D L E Y)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.animation
- Subject: Re: pov-ray ... help sought
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 15:21:31 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
- Lines: 42
- Message-ID: <1isocrINNaf1@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
- References: <1993Jan11.092841@IASTATE.EDU>
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- Keywords: povray, unix, gif
-
- gopi@IASTATE.EDU (Katra G Gopichand) writes:
-
- >I am just starting off on using pov-ray. Please forgive this dumb question.
- >I am using the UNIX version which outputs a file in the dump(?) format with
- >a *.dis extension. Could anyone please post or reply as to how to convert
- >this to the gif format or view it in any other fashion.
-
- From the documentation:
-
- # Table 1-1 Command Line Parameters
- # Parameter.....|.....Range.....|...Description..............
- # -----------------------------------------------------------
- ...
- # +f(?) | t, d or r | Output file format:
- # | | Targa, dump or raw.
- ...
- # Unless file output is disabled (-f) POV-Ray will create an
- # image file of the picture. This output file describes each
- # pixel with 24 bits of color information. Currently, three
- # output file formats are directly supported:
- #
- # +ft - Uncompressed Targa-24 format (IBM-PC Default)
- # +fd - Dump format (QRT-style)
- # +fr - Raw format - one file each for Red, Green and Blue.
-
- I would recommend using the targa output. I usually do the following to
- convert a targa file to gif:
-
- tgatoppm output.tga | ppmquant 256 | ppmtogif > output.gif
-
- The ppm (portable pixmap) utilities are a part of the pbmplus package
- which is available at many ftp sites (ask archie) if it isn't already
- installed on your system.
-
- Other people may do it using different utilities, but this way is fairly
- common and straightforward.
-
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-
- --
- John "Dudley" Hunkins
- dudley@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
-