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26 Apr 2024 21:52:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: "Starship Trader Monthly" magazine, built with POVRay 3.7  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 20 Jan 2020 02:25:11
Message: <5e2555d7$1@news.povray.org>
Op 19/01/2020 om 19:11 schreef Greg Kennedy:
> For NaNoGenMo 2019, I used POVRay heavily to create a fictional catalog of
> starships and space vehicles.  It's supposed to look like classified ads from
> the future.
> 
> The code is a lot of Perl to recursively build a POVRay scene file.  The
> starships are collections of POVRay objects (cubes, half-spheres, cylinders,
> etc), and then a CSG subtraction / union / mirror to achieve symmetrical results
> - either bilateral for shuttle-looking things, or radial for space stations.
> 
> You can see the completed output on Internet Archive:
> https://archive.org/details/nanogenmo_2019_starshiptradermonthly
> 
> and you can view the code or read much more about the project on Github:
> https://github.com/greg-kennedy/StarAndDriver
> 
> Without POVRay this project would have been impossible to complete!
> 
> -Greg
> 
> 

LOL! Well done indeed.

-- 
Thomas


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