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7 Aug 2024 09:19:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Vector based output?  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 17 Oct 2001 14:24:27
Message: <3BCDCCE2.D27B2CA7@gmx.de>
"Arie L. Stavchansky" wrote:
> 
> I realize that POVRay is meant to render scenes to extreme photorealism, BUT
> is there anything out there that allows a scene to render in a "cartoon"
> fashion so that you can import that work into something like illustrator?
> 
> David Gould's Illustrate! does this, but is for 3DStudioMax.  Also there is
> CartoonReyes which is also for 3DStudioMax.
> 
> Has anybody thought about this?  Know of any possibilities of it being a new
> feature?

Probably not, Povray is a raytracer which per definition generates bitmap
output.  Of course you can try to vectorize the output with an appropriate
program or write a renderer which generates 2d vector output of some kind,
but this has nothing to do with Povray in fact.

Christoph

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