[Edu-sig] Raytressi - more relevant than I thought

Markus Gritsch gritsch@iue.tuwien.ac.at
Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:57:10 +0100


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Arthinator@aol.com wrote:

> ... and being particularly well
> suited for use by others who might want to
> intergrate a raytracing into a math or
> programming curriculum.

Recently I improved the povexport.py module which was written by Ruth
Chabay, which exports a VPython 3D scene to a POVray-file.  I find it
very convenient to generate the geometry with VPython code, rotate and
zoom the camera at a good-looking location in the scene, and call the
export() function to generate the file, which renders exacly the same
in POVray.  Of course with shadows and optional textures added.

Its usage is straight forward, and an example file is included in the
zip. file.

Enjoy, Markus


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