Re: [Jmol-users] Tachyon (was Re: what is Jmol for?

[Robert H. <ha...@st...>]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Ralf Stephan <ra...@ar...> wrote:

> ...it can read its own format, described here officially:
> http://jedi.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/raytracer/papers/tachyon.pdf<http://jedi.ks.uiuc.edu/%7Ejohns/raytracer/papers/tachyon.pdf>
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Well, it's pretty crude. The surface files are going to be enormous, because
there is a 3-fold duplication of information. (Other programs use triangle
SETS that allow you to first indicate the vertices and then define the
points. Maybe that's possible here; I don't know. Sounds like it's under
active development.

It's worth a shot.


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