Hi all!

Funny you should mention this.  I've been working on molding a 3Com Ethernet
card as closely as possible.  The first images are posted in the p.b.i.
group.  Everything is being modeled using Rhino, piece by piece, positioned
and textured in Moray, then finally rendered in POV-Ray.  The only things I
have done so far are the board, bracket, all screws, activity LED, the
complete AUI connector, and the AUI connector lock.  I still have to do the
Twisted Pair connector and board components as well as the board traces and
writing.  (The last two I don't have any idea how I'm going to do yet!)

Anyway, I guess it would be a good thing to include NURBS support (although
it would probably cause the POV-Team to start charging for POV-Ray!)
Currently the pieces are exported to Moray using Moray's UDO/INC.  This
generates mesh files of pretty considerable size and complexity.  All
objects currently total about 49MB.  Guess which piece generated to biggest
file (by far!).  Like I said, I still have alot of work to do and I estimate
that the total size is going to be around 125MB in exported files.

The stats on the POV rendered models so far include:

    640 x 480, Alias 1 adaptive, No Radiosity
    Peak memory used:  38MB
    Time to parse:   0h 13m
    Time to trace:    2h 38m


Felix Petriconi <fel### [at] ruhr-uni-bochumde> wrote in message
news:37C3EE28.C51EB041@ruhr-uni-bochum.de...
> Hallo,
>
> are there any plans to include NURBS into PovRay?
>
> I think it would be a great advantage to have NURBS in PovRay because
> You would not have to handle big meshes.
>
> I know it is not so easy to implement this feature because it is
> mathematicaly
> a little bit tricky. But I believe that the time consuming ray-testing
> AND reading
> of big meshes would be history with this feature.
>
> (I have worked with BMRT, which supports the NURBS, and it was really
> nice
> to render quite complicated modells.)
> By the way, some of the great modellers (like Rhino) support NURBS.
>
>
> I just wanted to start a discussion. Perhaps there are some good reasons
> not
> to include NURBS into PovRay.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Felix
>

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