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- From: fixer@faxcsl.dcrt.nih.gov (Chris Spiral Catfish Tate)
- Subject: Re: 3D graphics...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.192301.23978@alw.nih.gov>
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- Organization: Computer Systems Laboratory, DCRT, NIH
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:23:01 GMT
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- Another excellent ray-tracing program for the Mac (and several other platforms)
- is the Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray). It is a joint collaboration
- between a number of programmers, very much in the tradition of the MS-DOS
- program FRACTINT.
-
- The home FTP site for POV-Ray is alfred.ccs.carleton.ca, in the /pub/povray
- directory tree.
-
- A catalog of its features is pretty impressive: CSG, a slew of procedural
- textures (which may be layered), image-mapping, height-mapping, image-based
- texture mapping, bicubic patches, arbitrary quadric and quartic surfaces,
- etc. See the documentation for a full explanation.
-
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- Christopher Tate | The Leadfoot Collection, Continued:
- Management System Designers | * Heavy Fuel (Dire Straits)
- | * Last Scene in September (Preston Reed)
- fixer@faxcsl.dcrt.nih.gov | Because driving fast is a cathartic experience.
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