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Re: povray iigs



sagochangi@aol.com (Sagochangi) wrote:

>>What's POV-Ray?  A raytracing program?
>>
>
>Yes, it is.  And, IMHO, one of the best available.   Made even better by the
>fact that it's completely free; and source code is available for every major
>platform.  There are front-ends and third-party addons abound, and POV-Ray
>supports all kinds of imaging formats, as well as animations.  A friend of
>mine, who I'll claim to be an expert, has used povray to generate raytrace
>animations superior to those used publically in, say, Babylon 5.  Povray
>absolutely _rules_, and the later versions are becoming extremely powerful.
>
>Check out http://www.povray.org for more details.

Ah, I think I know why the IIGS version refused to run, then.  I
remember reading several years back that someone ported
some program to the GNO/ME (IIGS Unix-like) environment
on the IIGS.  It supposedly needed 8MB to run.