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- From: umpresse@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Chris Alexander Pressey)
- Subject: Looking for POVRay for Suns
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- Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:00:45 GMT
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- Hi all,
-
- I'm not sure wether this is the 'correct' newsgroup or not, but I'm at
- a loss to find anything more apropriate. I've discovered a ray-tracing
- program which I like a lot - POVRay, or Persistance Of Vision Ray Tracer -
- but I have two problems with it :
-
- 1. I only have an Amiga version, which eats memory on my A500, and is
- very, very slow to boot.
- This would be tolerable but...
- 2. I also run a BBS, so it's down a lot when I get in a ray-tracing
- mood. :-(
-
- This said, I am looking for a version of POVRay to run on a Sun
- workstation here at the U of M. The docs for POVRay say it has been
- ported to several different platforms, and describes the major ones
- (presumably, the ones they care about destributing) - IBM, Amiga, and Mac.
- They mention a Unix version, and they mention in passing that it has been
- ported to a Sun (and a Cray! :-). However, they don't say much about it,
- so I'm in the dark as to wether or not a Sun version of POVRay exists.
-
- If anyone has a yes or no answer to that, please reply.
-
- Another curious fact is that archie turned up four sites with POVRay -
- but they were all in Amiga directories, so that doesn't help me.
-
- If all else fails, I wouldn't mind finding a copy of POVRay for an IBM
- machine either, but a Sun executable/source would be preferred.
-
- Chris
-
- Please reply E-MAIL. (umpresse@ccu.umanitoba.ca)
-
-
- --
- Oooo Chris Pressey "In order to understand recursion,
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