It looks wonderful.
Thank you Ichthyostega!


"Ichthyostega" <Ich### [at] webde> wrote in message
news:web.3e631ed5ef61113d4066d4e0@news.povray.org...
> finally, after a long delay caused by much work to be done for other
> projects, I am now ready to announce the next release of my patch
>
> _____________
> StereoPOV 0.2
> Stereoscopic Raytracing with POV-Ray
>
>  This patch enables some of the camera types built into POV-Ray 3.5 to
>  generate  real 3D output by generating stereoscopic pairs of images.
>  The key feature of this patch is the ability to render the two halfimages
>  in a single raytracing pass, whilst sharing the results of lighting,
>  texture, photon and radiosity calculations.
>  Five built in camera types are "stereoscopically enabeled":
>  perspective, orthogonal, fisheye, cylindrical and spherical wideangle,
>  the latter beeing a new addition specifically designed to create
>  full range stereoscopic images of fisheye type.
>
> NEW: - Now based on POV 3.5 sources,
>      - extended the "StereoCache" datastructure to support
>        light groups and photon data
>      - new stereo camera setup features
>      - heuristic to guess stereoscopic base (similar to the so called
>        "1:30 rule")
>      - many bugfixes, improved AntiAlias quality.
>
> Sample images, documentation, source and
> a windows executable is available at
>
> http://stereopov.ichthyostega.de/
>
>
> PS: I added more sample images to the webpage:
> Experiments with splines, radiosity and media.
> A "Tomtree". And of course an Iso in real 3D.
> And I couldn't resist to trace Christoph Hormann's
> BALCONY.pov in 3D.
>
> see:
> http://stereopov.ichthyostega.de/images.html
>
>
> "Ichthyostega"
> (Hermann Vosseler)
>
>

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