From: gwesp@cosy.sbg.ac.at (Gerhard Wesp) Subject: Re: raytrace Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 11:23:05 GMT
Markfried Fellensiek (ins413j@mdw022.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
: Mircea Malarski (nmm@rz.uni-jena.de) wrote:
: :
: : Again a question: is there a RAYTRACE program for X anywhere?
: :
:
: Yes! It's called povray, You have to edit the image description files
: with a text editor, but it lets you see what it's traceing while it's tracing
: in an X-window, although if you want good color display it's better to
: view with something like xv afterwards.
You might want to try Radiance. After that you might forget povray.
Radiance is a raytracing package with radiosity effects by Gregory J. Ward
(greg@hobbes.lbl.gov). The source is available via anonymous ftp from
hobbes.lbl.gov.
The package consists of several programs/utilities:
- an X11 scene previewer
- the raytracer
- an X11 image displayer
- picture refinement utilities
- several format converters
- other utilities (e.g. for interactively showing raytraces)
Full documentation is included (man pages, tutorial, ...)
Many demo scenes are available.
Radiance is fast (perhaps because it uses octrees?) and renders *very realistic*
images.
In theory, it should compile out of the box on many unix platforms.
However, as I tried it on my linux box it compiled (after some minor changes),
but almost all the binaries core-dumped. I am (still) using gcc v2.3.3,
but if somebody tells me he got Radiance to work with more recent versions, I'll
upgrade immediately!
So, if somebody managed to get it to work under Linux, please let me know how!
Greetings,
-Gerhard