pov-ray ... help sought

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2 total messages Started by Katra G Gopichand Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:28

#805

Author: Katra G Gopichand
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:28

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I am just starting off on using pov-ray. Please forgive this dumb question. I am
using the UNIX version which outputs a file in the dump(?) format with a *.dis
extension. Could anyone please post or reply as to how to convert this to the
gif format or view it in any other fashion.

Thanks

Gopichand Katragadda
gopi@iastate.edu

Re: pov-ray ... help sought

#808

Author: D U D L E Y
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:21

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gopi@IASTATE.EDU (Katra G Gopichand) writes:

>I am just starting off on using pov-ray. Please forgive this dumb question.
>I am using the UNIX version which outputs a file in the dump(?) format with
>a *.dis extension. Could anyone please post or reply as to how to convert
>this to the gif format or view it in any other fashion.

From the documentation:

#       Table 1-1 Command Line Parameters
#       Parameter.....|.....Range.....|...Description..............
#       -----------------------------------------------------------
...
#       +f(?)         | t, d or r     | Output file format:
#                     |               |   Targa, dump or raw.
...
#       Unless file output is disabled (-f) POV-Ray will create an
#       image file of the picture. This output file describes each
#       pixel with 24 bits of color information. Currently, three
#       output file formats are directly supported:
#
#       +ft - Uncompressed Targa-24 format (IBM-PC Default)
#       +fd - Dump format (QRT-style)
#       +fr - Raw format - one file each for Red, Green and Blue.

I would recommend using the targa output. I usually do the following to
convert a targa file to gif:

tgatoppm output.tga | ppmquant 256 | ppmtogif > output.gif

The ppm (portable pixmap) utilities are a part of the pbmplus package
which is available at many ftp sites (ask archie) if it isn't already
installed on your system.

Other people may do it using different utilities, but this way is fairly
common and straightforward.

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                                                    John "Dudley" Hunkins
                                                  dudley@matt.ksu.ksu.edu

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