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In article <92322.222021TJR122@psuvm.psu.edu> TJR122@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>Has anyone heard anything about the program 'Persistance of Vision'?
>It is supposedly an amazing new 3D graphics/animation program for the
>PC (386) that does all sorts of those 'professional' spline motion,
>reflection, surfacing, lighting, etc. for a VERY low price.
>
>If anyone has even heard ANYTHING about this, please let me know.
>
>'Thanx.'
>
>Tom Rusnock TJR122@PSUVM.PSU.EDU

	It is quite an impressive program.  It makes Ray-traced
images and can write them to a 24 bit Targa file, raw files of r,g, and
b values, and one other, I think.  It is available for dos, amiga, and
C source, as well.  Has many sample files for rendering images.  It can
take a LONG time to render images, though.  I rendered an image to a
targa file with 320x200 resolution and it took 2 1/2 hours on a
486 20 MHz (no math coprocessor, which they say can increase rendering
speed greatly).  You can use IMPROC41 to view the targa file on a pc
with vga, supervga, but I'm sure there are other programs out there to
view them.  You can display the images while the rendering occurs, too.
Some modes are: VGA 320x200x256, 640x480x256, 1024x768x256, others.
Check the docs for more info.

  Try ftp'ing it from oak.oakland.edu in the pub/msdos/graphics
directory (if my memory serves me correctly!).  Look for:

   povdoc.zip -- documentation, a must.
   povibm.zip -- executable for ibm dos.
   povscn.zip -- sample files for rendering images.
   
   optional: povsrc.zip -- c source code.  Compile to use POVRAY on
                           UNIX, SUN, etc.

             improc41.zip -- Image Processor (Something like that!)
                             basically a paint program with some
                             advanced image processing and drawing
                             functions.  Read targa files straight
                             from POVRAY to display on VGA/SVGA.

Hope this helps!

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