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- Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer
- Version 3.00
- Atari ST & compatibile unofficial version
-
- Here is first unofficial version of POV-Ray 3.0 ported to TOS & GEM (!)
- It has all features of plain POV and also capability of displaing image in
- GEM window while rendering. there are supported all bitplan resolutiions
- (2/4/16/256 colors) and Falcon HiColor as well. GEM interface supports on-line
- Floyd-Steinberg dithering (also random dither in HiColor). Displaing and
- dithering based on Unix Xwindows version.
- This program requires TOS2GEM.PRG and ENHANCER.PRG to be installed on the
- system. Both are included in the package. You may jus copy them to auto folder.
- However ENHANCER is not needed if NVDI 2.5 or higher is installed in your
- system. You can read about both utils if you know German language .
-
- POV-Ray is freeware. Please read POVLEGAL.DOC & POVRAY.DOC & enjoy.
-
- Standard disclaimer (no warranty...) is also aplicable to this package. You
- should read DISCLAIMER section in POVLEGAL.DOC
-
-
- Current GUI interface version 0.02 beta from 18.11.96 (however works quite
- properly).
-
- Known bugs:
-
- - This one should be improoved in 0.02 (I haven't tested it):
- When POV-Ray ends its job it needs Enter to be pressed. Then, in multitasking
- environment, you *have* to press the Enter before you do anything else.
- Even if POV-Ray runs in background. Its due to behaviour of TOS2GEM -
- I am not able to switch off standard input grabbing.
-
- - Sometimes window refresh doesn't work propery (but very rarely).
-
- - TOS console is not updated too quickly in some cases.
-
- - With ENHANCER 1.0 sometimes you may have some problems with mouse movements
- - its due to bug in ENHANCER :(
-
- - Floyd-Steinberg dithering aghoritm results in too gray colors when colors
- are bright. If you know some good dithering alghoritm please let me know.
-
-
- If you like my job (the GUI, *not* the POV-Ray ;), if you find any bugs or have
- any ideas, please feel free write to me. In bug case you are welcome to attach
- short info about your system.
-
-
- Author of Atari port:
-
- Szymon Stasik
-
- e-mails:
- Szymon.Stasik@students.mimuw.edu.pl
- stasik@bull.mimuw.edu.pl
-
- s-mail:
-
- POLAND
- 02-782 WARSAW
- NUTKI 2/31
-