Warp wrote:
>>  If you
>> simply want "3D-looking graphics" there are many a lot faster and better
>> options than PovRay.
> 
>   How many of them are for Linux? Of those, how many of them work without
> OpenGL?
> 
>   And if something takes 5 second to render instead of 1, big deal.

Blender? Maybe it requires OpenGL. But what is the problem with OpenGL?
And for web page buttos, GIMP might also be a good candidate.

>> You discard the realism but you get it fast. I'm
>> more interested in photorealism.
> 
>   A 3D button for a webpage doesn't need any more photorealism than what
> POV-Ray can offer in a 1 second render.

Ok, got me on that one :) Yes, rendering web page buttons with brute
force renderer is like killing a mosquito with a nuke. I don't know how
common it is to use POV for creating web page buttons, though...


Care to show what kind of buttons you mean?

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