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In article <1h9camINNoss@griffin.orpington.sgp.slb.com> liste@geos01.sinet.slb.com (Matthew Liste) writes:
>Does anyone know if there's a program that will allow one to draw in wireframe,
>and will then translate the picture to POV - language?
>
>-Matthew		(liste@oslo.sgp.slb.com)

There is at least one wireframe modeller that supports POV scene file output.
The one I know about is PV3D, version 0.20 beta.  It's by a French author
whose name escapes me right now.  The documentation is a bit sketchy and
it hasn't been met by critical acclaim by a lot of Compu$erve users 
(the only people I've heard comment about it), but it seems to fill a
gap that I don't see being filled by anything else.  I've gotten the
program very recently and haven't had the time to assess it fully, so
I won't comment on its functionality.

I'll FTP it to faramir.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (134.106.1.9) later
tonight EST, unless someone else beats me to it (with a newer version,
perhaps?).  Faramir's /pub/dkbtrace/incoming directory currently seems to 
be the best repository for recent POV utilities.  Most of the utilities seem
to make their way there from either Compu$erve, the You Can Call Me Ray BBS
mentioned in the POV docs, or Adam Schiffman's (sp) The Graphics Alternative
BBS which has been mentioned in posts recently.  These places would be 
excellent sources (particularly TGA) to check if you can afford the
Compu$erve or long-distance charges.  I got the modeler from either 
the Ray or TGA BBS to begin with.

One or more Compu$erve users have dropped not-so-subtle hints about POV
wireframe modellers of their own in the works, but nothing is available
quite yet (that I know of).

-Russell
rwebb@nyx.cs.du.edu