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5 Nov 2024 01:26:19 EST (-0500)
  Re: 2D line drawing?  
From: Philippe Lhoste
Date: 20 Sep 2002 10:11:02
Message: <Xns928FA46B65749PhiLho@204.213.191.226>
"Dennis Miller" <dhm### [at] attbicom> wrote in
news:3d570c47$1@news.povray.org: 

> What's the easiest way to create a simple vertical or horizontal solid
> line in POV? Wouldn't a "line" object be useful:
> 
> line {line_start, line_end; width}
> 
> or something like that? I don't want to have to use the edge of a 3D
> object to get this effect.

Come to think of it, since such 2D drawing primitives are asked from time
to time, you can do them with ImageMagick, which has a number of drawing
capabilities, including text drawing. Works on most platforms. It is a
good post-processing program, I think. 

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Philippe Lhoste (Paris -- France)
Professional programmer and amateur artist
http://jove.prohosting.com/~philho/


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