Form and Biowin are both great utilities that have been
orphaned. There are other simple utilities from the DOS
days that have just gone away, like Suds (although you
can still use Suds with POV 3.5 after a little editing of
the output). Wish I had the programming skills to bring
these programs up to date for use with POV 3.5.
Maybe someone is up to the task.

HB

"Andrew Cocker" <mai### [at] mariner9net> wrote in message
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>
> "Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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> > I just played around with the dos version for a couple of minutes and
> > got it to put out a .pov file by using -pov on the command line. I
> > haven't had any success yet getting the Windows version to run.
>
> Yeah, I used to love FORM. I posted an image here in binaries.images that
I made with it.
> Here's the link:
> http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/10864/66232/Forms.jpg
>
> From memory, Ken is correct in saying that you need to use -pov on the
command line (I think
> there are other POV related options). All the info you need is in the
included doc files.
> IIRC, the windows version is basically a way of visualising FORM
mutations, using different
> seeds. You can configure the window to display up to 9 FORM's. Click on
the one you like, and
> you can save it (as a FORM file), or set that one to be the parent, from
which children will
> mutate. You can't actually output POV code from the Win version. You have
to use the method
> described above.
>
> All the best,
>
> Andy Cocker
>
>

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