On Fri, 25 May 2001, Bob Miller wrote:
> Justin Bengtson wrote:
> > i've seen POV before and i wasn't too impressed. of course, that was
> > several years ago. has it matured beyond the "script" redering i've seen?
> There are several modeling programs that will generate POVray scripts.
> But those modeling programs all run on Winders.
I first used POV back in 93 or 94, under OS/2 v2 beta;
rendering out the more complex examples at ~megapixel
took hours, but _only_ hours on my 486. Well, that
was cool... shortly after, PoV released a whole 'new'
version (3?) and I've run it nuder linux but haven't
toyed much. It's one of those things that I think is
great to have around -- I'd like to one day have my
server using gimp, PoV, and various other process-
intensive media-manipulation tools in some useful
way... I'm not making content these days tho, and
have since used the OpenGL-based Java3D environment,
but for much different purposes. I guess raw GL
would be the way to go (as a ~coder)... Anyone
thought of re-rendering GL to flash, now that there
are a number of toolkits for it??? I'm thinking
server-side, with many users sharing an active GL
environment, then each user's session gets sent a
.swf every so often, depending on the server and it's
load, and the bandwidth and desired resolution of each
user! Plan: world domination.
"this idea is GPL'ed" as of now : )
ben
PS - I guess PoV doesn't really have a place in
that venture, but I think it's cool and worth
looking around for the frontend that serves you best...
