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- From: andy@osea.demon.co.uk (Andrew Haveland-Robinson)
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- Subject: RayTracing GUI
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- References: <1992Nov10.160611.22859@gserv1.dl.ac.uk>
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:51:42 +0000
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- In article <1992Nov10.160611.22859@gserv1.dl.ac.uk> g.coulter@daresbury.ac.uk writes:
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- >Hi Everyone
- >
- >I am currently thinking about writing a graphical user interface
- >front end for the use with script based raytracing programs. Can
- >anyone out there tell me which of these script based PD raytracers
- >provides the best results. I want to run the final code on a DEC
- >station running ULTRIX, but I am doing the development on a SUN
- >SPARCstation.
- >
- >What would be great would be the name of a raytracer/s that will
- >run on the above platform, and also a FTP site where I can get the
- >source and some sample scripts. I have heard about something called
- >POV but i'm not up on raytracing outside the Amiga (I use Real3D).
- >
- >
- >Thanks for Any help.
-
- In the absence of in-depth knowledge of rayshade et al I would suggest
- POV and Vivid.
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- You surprise me as POV was originally written for the Amiga!
- You can get the source POVAMI.LZH by ftp alred.ccs.carleton.ca
-
- Good luck!
- Andy.
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