On Dec 17, 2009, at 7:21 PM, Robert Hanson wrote: > The tachyon tracer idea is a good one -- just show me the format.
According to its man page, which is here: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/karmic/man1/tachyon.1.html ...it can read its own format, described here officially: http://jedi.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/raytracer/papers/tachyon.pdf and also the AC3D format (a modeller): http://www.inivis.com/ac3d/man/ac3dfileformat.html and also the NFF scene format, which is here: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/courses/cap5725/spring2003/nff.html By implementing AC3D output you could at the same time support that program, read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC3D However, the tachyon web page states "It also supports less common features such as HDR image output, ambient occlusion lighting, and support for various triangle mesh and volumetric texture formats beneficial for molecular visualization", but this isn't in the PDF above. Maybe ambient occlusion lighting is entirely done with command line options, but I'm not sure about the other things. Regards, Ralf Stephan http://www.ark.in-berlin.de pub 1024D/C5114CB2 2009-06-07 [expires: 2011-06-06] Key fingerprint = 76AE 0D21 C06C CBF9 24F8 7835 1809 DE97 C511 4CB2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
