> Hello there. My name is Ivano Arrighetta and I'm Italian.
> I would like to know more about povray used with FFMPEG and imagemagick
> and in detail:
>
> 1) Can it capture images from scanner and/or webcam?
As Clipca said, was possible but have been removed.
It can use an image from a scanner of a still captured from a webcam and 
saved as an image file. That image can be used as an image_map.
> 2) Can it do OCR?
NO.
> 3) Can a 2D surface be extruded?
Yes as a prism. You need to enter the coordinates of the control points 
and set the height. Also, an image can be used in a height field object 
where the brightness controls the height of the surface.
> 4) Can a raster image be used as a sound? (maybe like a spectrum or so)
No.
> 5) Can it do vector animations?
Not directly. If you have the vector shape definition, it may be 
possible to use it to create a polygon object, have no thickness and 
only straight edges, or a prism of any thickness and may have smoothly 
curving edges.
> 6) Can it generate 3D geometry?
Yes as any of the supported primitives, one of witch is the mesh. If you 
want to export those, you'll probably need to convert into a mesh. This 
is NOT obvious nor easy as POV-Ray never work internally with mesh 
except for the mesh primitive.
> 7) Can it add 3D modifyers? (like twist, tape, bend, etc)
Not easily. You need to define your shape as a function, or combination 
of functions, and perform the distortion in an isosurface.
> 8) Can it synthesize audio?
No. POV-Ray have no concept of sounds at all outside of the sounds 
signals it may play on completion of a render or to signal an error.
> 9) Can it capture audio from a microphone?
No. See point 8.
> 10) Can it convert an audio stream to a raster image?
No. See point 8.
> 11) Can it capture a video from webcam or the desktop?
No. This a repeat of point 1.
> 12) Can a video be used as a texture for a 3D surface?
Not directly. Same as point 11.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Bye, Ivano.
>
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>

Alain

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