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- From: mystical@nmt.edu (Gurupartap Davis)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Subject: Re: Fractint and POV
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.173436.12818@nmt.edu>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 17:34:36 GMT
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- In article <taudas.721352948@ais.org> taudas@ais.org (Tony Audas) writes:
- >take one of the sample .pov files ( i use axis.pov) and delete the parts you
- >don't want and add your own objects. i have found that this is the best way
- >to get a 'feel' for the system. the output of the fractint 3d menu function
- >can be traced by pov.
-
- I would suggest you use the height field option rather than the 3d output
- option, forspeed and size considerations. if you are using, say, a 1024x768
- fractal pic, the 3d output will be several megabytes, because the 3d output
- option creates 2 triangle objects for each pixel. If you use the GIF file,
- (or even better, a POT 16bit gif) you can get the same effect, plus you can
- change the height scaling and stuff without going through fractint again.
- The reason the POT files work so much better than GIFs is because you can have
- 32k color values, which makes much smoother output than 256 colors.
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- Partap
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