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- Short: Connect the Dots Smoother v2.30
- Type: gen/pc
- Author: Truman Brown
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- INTRODUCTION:
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- Connect The Dots Smoother (CTDS) is a data file generator currently supporting
- the following raytracer formats:
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- . Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray) - by various contributors
- . Vivid Raytracer - by Stephen Coy
- . PolyRay Raytracer - by Alexander Enzmann
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- For information about any of these raytracers, or about the art of raytracing,
- or the current state of computer graphics or computer art in general please
- visit the Graphics Developers forum on CompuServe (tm) (GO GRAPHDEV).
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- For those who are familiar with the art of raytracing, you know that computer
- generated raytraced images are created by combining and arranging basic
- primitives such as spheres, cylinders, boxes, etc. Often, scenes will call for
- complex arrangements of primitives and it would be desirable for the connections
- between them to appear smooth and seamless. Accomplishing this is quite often
- difficult and/or memory-intensive. The artist may resort to the use of
- spline-based polygons generated by various modeling programs, or to the
- "packing" of primitives until the desired smoothness is achieved.
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- Though effective, these may or may not be the best methods.
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- CTDS provides another alternative. It does what it's name implies, working like
- a rock-steady hand of a child connecting "dots" in three dimensional space.
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