back in the 90s, the era of 8/16bit home computers, it was rare treat to experience software that made your computer feel like a supercomputer
the (originally freeware) #opensource raytracing software POVRAY was definitely one of those
it was available for a number of platforms eg Amiga, PC and Acorn Archimedes
the scene description language was very powerful, able to programmatically define scenes with eg loops
@sergio_101 @stu I use #povray semi-regularly, e.g. to convert .STL to depth maps and to render more shiny LaTeX-beamer presentations.
I would love to find that there is still an active community for #PovRay, because i loved that so much.
#raytracing avec #povray : Je ne suis pas trop en forme ces temps-ci, alors je laisse trainer les évolutions de la famille #hexacone...
http://maison.tth.netlib.re/v/wip-orbite.html
La famille #hexacone, du raytracing en #povray : une nouvelle scène http://maison.tth.netlib.re/v/wip-bubblecut.html
Neues zu #3D und #WebGl mit #OpenStreetMap von Tobias und dem #osm2world Team
http://www.osm2world.org
I have been using tau in my #PovRay animations for years and it's so much easier to figure out where I am in a rotation because of it.
#raytracing avec #Povray
Le code :
#declare Kbox = (2.03*NormClock);
difference {
object { HexaCone () }
box { -1, 1 translate z*Kbox }
translate y*1.5 + Pos_RedB_1
}
Et la vidéo : http://maison.tth.netlib.re/v/wip-cutoff.html
Last week I found one of my 3D renders from when I was a teenager, posted by an account that reposts “old school 3D”… which sure did also make *me* feel old.
But it did inspire me to dig out some old files, install POV-Ray and start making some abstracts. I still find procedural raytracing a lot of fun because it appeals to the programming side of me. I think I’ll probably get back into this again.
Only a bit of the syntax has changed, too.
Ⓢⓟⓗⓔⓡⓘⓒⓐⓛ h ₑ ᵢ g ₕ ₜ f ᵢ ₑ ₗ d ₛ … #𝙒𝙄𝙋, by 𝗠𝗮𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀
"…𝘐 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘱 (#𝘋𝘌𝘔) 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘶𝘮
𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴... #𝙿𝙾𝚅-𝚁𝚊𝚢 𝙸𝚜𝚘𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚍𝚎 – 𝘯𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘴. (https://news.povray.org/povray.advanced-users/thread/%3Cweb.67b47b18cb1bd5e34d0a98d30225ff5%40news.povray.org%3E/)"
#ポヴエイブル
#ポヴレイ
#POVaBle
#Art
#DigitalArt
#Creative
#3dart
#cgi
#ConceptArt
#NoAI
#render
#Tutorial
#spaceart
#WIPWednesday
#POVRay
#Povray, c'est cool :)
torus { E, E*0.05
scale <1, 2.4, 1> rotate x*90
#if ( rand(Rng1) < 0.5 )
texture { T_Planete_A }
#else
texture { T_Planete_B }
#end
}
File 'globals.inc' line 3: Parse Warning: New instance of assumed_gamma ignored
Ok, merci #povray !
#raytracing avec #povray : un essai de cabane, la même en mieux et le commit de la chose. Stay tuned, film at 11.
File 'cutoff.pov' line 24: Parse Warning: Patch objects not allowed in intersection.
Ok, merci #povray !
@laurawiki : Ça remonte le moral, comme quand on fait du #raytracing avec #Povray.
13 hours into an animation render barely 2/3rds done and I check the frames. That's not what I wanted to render! I was hoping to get some other project started, so I guess I can now.
