Re: Povray terminal output

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

>    I had a small look into povray and I must say it is quite convenient
> for scientific plotting. I am amazed at the possibilities. Writing a
> terminal driver may actual be more a work of building povray syntax
> blocks that would correspond with gnuplot's rendering engine than writing
> a conventional terminal driver.
>
>    Actually, while writing that I realised that this was probably the step
> where to start to do a povray output in gnuplot (it technically would not
> be a terminal driver, as far as I understand how Gnuplot terminal drivers
> work) : it would have to do most of its work before gnuplot's rendering
> engine.

Some question:
  - How can povray draw vectors? (I know VRML does not have them.)
  - And line thickness is what -- a diameter of a tube, or is it a
    "billboard"-like thickness.
  - And what about point symbols -- should they be billboard-like characters
    or true 3D objects?

Could you draw an expected gnuplot output, e.g. for the "test" page or "plot
1/x", or "splot x*y", by hand, and present it?

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