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Anyone know any good share/freeware renders for Linux? POVRay is generally
a cool program, but the Linux program is quite unfriendly... I mean
the mac version has a much better interface (make that, it HAS an interface)
and is quite easy to learn more about it.. but seeing as how my mac is 16mhz
6 megs of RAM, and my linux box is a p133 with 16 megs.. i think i'd rather
render on my linux box.. sugguestions anyone? or shall i just suck it up and
use POVRay?

On 7 Jul 1996 19:24:31 GMT, ??? wrote.

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> Anyone know any good share/freeware renders for Linux? POVRay is generally
> a cool program, but the Linux program is quite unfriendly... I mean
> the mac version has a much better interface (make that, it HAS an interface)
> and is quite easy to learn more about it.. but seeing as how my mac is 16mhz
> 6 megs of RAM, and my linux box is a p133 with 16 megs.. i think i'd rather
> render on my linux box.. sugguestions anyone? or shall i just suck it up and
> use POVRay?

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Povray doesn't have a graphic interface (none that comes with it), althoug
there are a few third-party modellers supporting pov. Could this be what you
have on your mac? Then again.. I could be behind the times, in which case
this will sound really silly. I think I saw an X-modeller supporting POV
format at the POV url.

: Anyone know any good share/freeware renders for Linux? POVRay is generally
: a cool program, but the Linux program is quite unfriendly... I mean
: the mac version has a much better interface (make that, it HAS an interface)
: and is quite easy to learn more about it.. but seeing as how my mac is 16mhz
: 6 megs of RAM, and my linux box is a p133 with 16 megs.. i think i'd rather
: render on my linux box.. sugguestions anyone? or shall i just suck it up and
: use POVRay?

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Jeff

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> Anyone know any good share/freeware renders for Linux? POVRay is
generally
> a cool program, but the Linux program is quite unfriendly... I mean
> the mac version has a much better interface (make that, it HAS an

Well, POVRay 3.0 has just fairly recently been released for Linux...  It's
got more features than most any other free/shareware raytracer you'll
find.  True, the interface isn't point and click, but it really doesn't
have to be.  What i would do is basically go through the documentation,
and get some of the basic command line options down.  Make yourself a few
scripts with descriptive names (like quick, med, and allnighter) to use to
launch povray with appropriate command line options.

Unfortunately, i haven't really looked very hard for a good modeller for
linux, so i don't have much input for you there.  There are alot of
scientific/research type programs out there that could be used for
physical modelling (molecules, inertial stuff (look for 'aero')), and
fractint for some beautiful fractal heightfields. Even if you can find a
good modeller for your mac, POV is POV, and it will render on linux after
being modelled on the Mac.

good luck.

bob

   Well, POVRay 3.0 has just fairly recently been released for Linux...  It's
   got more features than most any other free/shareware raytracer you'll
   find.  True, the interface isn't point and click, but it really doesn't
   have to be.  What i would do is basically go through the documentation,
   and get some of the basic command line options down.  Make yourself a few
   scripts with descriptive names (like quick, med, and allnighter) to use to
   launch povray with appropriate command line options.

   Unfortunately, i haven't really looked very hard for a good modeller for
   linux, so i don't have much input for you there.  There are alot of
   scientific/research type programs out there that could be used for
   physical modelling (molecules, inertial stuff (look for 'aero')), and
   fractint for some beautiful fractal heightfields. Even if you can find a
   good modeller for your mac, POV is POV, and it will render on linux after
   being modelled on the Mac.

There is a nice interface for povray for controlling all the options:
http://www.veryComputer.com/~mallozzir/

Additionally there is sceda, a scene animator (I am not so convinced about
that, because the interface is not so self explanatory...)
and ac3d which looked very nice, but is shareware.

The images for the program at the below www-address are raytraced with
povray-2.2 under linux.

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> Anyone know any good share/freeware renders for Linux? POVRay is
generally
> a cool program, but the Linux program is quite unfriendly... I mean
> the mac version has a much better interface (make that, it HAS an

You should check out Larry Gritz's Blue Moon Rendering Tools, at
http://www.seas.gwu.edu/student/gritz/bmrt.html

BMRT is a Renderman compliant renderer that employs raytracing and radiosity
to produce professional quality images.  It is just a renderer, so don't
expect a fancy front end.  You'll need some sort of modeller that outputs
Renderman RIB files.  Vi and Emacs work ok, but are a bit tedious :-)
The sced modeller has renderman support, as do a few others.  Check out Tal
Lancaster's Renderman Repository, http://pete.cs.caltech.edu/RMR/index.html,
for info on modellers that support RIB.

The images on my Ringworld pages,
http://www.rahul.net/rootbear/graphics/ringworld, were rendered with BMRT
(not, as it happens, under Linux, but they could have been).

Jim

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