Re: Now working on POV-Ray terminal

[Harald H. <h.h...@tu...>]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, KITA Toshihiro wrote:

> I and one of my students, Miyata, are currently working on the
> POV-Ray and VRML terminal of gnuplot.

[...]

> It is just a alpha-version and not so neatly written.
> Maybe in several weeks we can provide our patch file to add these two
> terminals here at this ML.

Just a few comments:

- Your povray file is buggy. You are using #macro defines and state that
  you have version 3.0. Please use
  #version 3.1
- Have you thought of adding spheres to the end of cylinders? This would
  make the output much nicer.

Please try it with my changes:

--- tt1.pov     2005-01-27 09:21:12.000000000 +0100
+++ tt1a.pov    2005-01-29 00:38:23.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#version 3.0
+#version 3.1
 #include "colors.inc"
 #include "shapes.inc"
 #include "textures.inc"
@@ -40,6 +40,13 @@
 cylinder{<0,12.5,0><50,12.5,0>,0.2}
 cylinder{<0,25,0><50,25,0>,0.2}
 cylinder{<0,37.5,0><50,37.5,0>,0.2}
+sphere{<50,50,-40>,0.5}
+sphere{<0,0,-40>,0.5}
+sphere{<0,50,-40>,0.5}
+sphere{<0,0,0>,0.5}
+sphere{<0,50,0>,0.5}
+sphere{<50,50,0>,0.5}
+sphere{<50,0,0>,0.5}
 text{ ttf "crystal.ttf","-2",0.1,0
 pigment{White}
 scale 4


Regards,
Harald

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Harald Harders
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