Hello, On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:18 PM, A. Jorge Garcia <[email protected]> wrote: > Some questions about Tachyon:
I can answer a few of these. > (1) Is this the same tachyon by John Stone? If so, how is this a > python file? I found John Stone's website documenting tachyon and its > 12 years old! Was python so robust back in 1997 or even in use? Yes, it's the same Tachyon. It's not a Python file. Sage is writing a file which the command-line version of Tachyon reads as input. > (2) Are there sample scene files for tachyon a la povray? I see many > such scenes on the afore mentioned website. In the tachyon source tarball, there are many example scene files, including the examples shown on the website. > (3) Can povray scene files be converted to tachyon format? I don't know of any way to do this, but that probably is not saying a whole lot. > (4) Was the chess scene in Yi Qiang's demo of dSage (http:// > www.msri.org/communications/vmath/VMathVideos/VideoInfo/2988/show_video) > made using tachyon or povray? It was made using POVray using the DistributedPOVRay class in Sage. Sage can make use of povray if it is installed, but we can distribute it due to licensing issues. --Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
