checking for approvals/rejections/suggestions/requirements from the group
for initial splash.

dont intend to distribute but if requested I'd be obliged to send it along.

no help or sound until multiple libs issue is resovled by working example
as .gcc entry still errors.

# Standard linker flags ?path to libs?
# command line LDFLAGS=-lcomctl32 overides, linking correctly
# with libs in src root

LDFLAGS=-L /lib/
LIBS=-lcomctl32

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I like this a lot. I think the composition is well balanced, especially the 
range of colours. Not intentional maybe, but I think that the text adds 
something special to the image, like if it were some kind of screen showing 
data related to what is happening, or the final credits of a film.

Thomas

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"alphaQuad" <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> checking for approvals/rejections/suggestions/requirements from the group
> for initial splash.
>

I disapprove/ reject/ suggest against using an initial splash, regardless of the
quality of the image. It is a punishment inflicted upon the person coming to
your site and is probably advocated only by some third-rate design schools.

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"gregjohn" <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> "alphaQuad" <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> > checking for approvals/rejections/suggestions/requirements from the group
> > for initial splash.
> >
>
> I disapprove/ reject/ suggest against using an initial splash, regardless of the
> quality of the image. It is a punishment inflicted upon the person coming to
> your site and is probably advocated only by some third-rate design schools.


OVER RULED!

statement suggests a misunderstanding of the situation
and it is a requirement.



fortune cookie
I'd be funny as hell if anyone had a sense of humor.

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"alphaQuad" <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message 
news:web.47541ca0d9cc2bce904d0fea0@news.povray.org...
> checking for approvals/rejections/suggestions/requirements from the group
> for initial splash.
>
For what is this? Is the winged creatures going to get feet wet?
Stiff cone not fall like natural skirt.
Funny reflection of hidden sun placement in shape.
Moon illumination not right for sun location.
DLM

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"dlm" <me### [at] addressinvalid> wrote:
>Stiff cone not fall like natural skirt.

pick pick pick
the skirt is very flexable, she was hovering and flying backwards enough to
inflate the skirt. lol

Patch = <473cdb52@news.povray.org>
copiles no probs

Paul's source.zip also no probs, link to site:
<web.4724379617f999ac65f2686d0@news.povray.org>

next task: add Paul's remaining cams
to 1st compilation

QUESTION
just what installation does this script require, see attached img.

 and did I get the file right?
povdir\scripts\  ... right dir *.sh files?


Post_Frame_Command.sh
#!/bin/sh

# POV Post_Frame_Command script
#
# If using a sterescopic camera, make the anaglyph image from the left and
# right pairs.  Do this whether or not an animation is being rendered.
# Requires ImageMagick's 'composite' command.
#
# Usage: From a povray .INI file:
#
#   Post_Frame_Command="Post_Frame_Command.sh h=%h n=%n o='%o' s='%s' w=%w"
#

while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do
  case "$1" in
    [hnosw]=*)
      var=`expr "$1" : '\(.\)=.*$' | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'`
      val="`expr "$1" : '.=\(.*\)$'`"
      eval $var=\"$val\"
      ;;
    *)
      echo Usage: $0 h=%h n=%n o=\'%o\' s=\'%s\' w=%w
      exit 1
      ;;
  esac
  shift
done

sfx="`expr "$O" : '.*\.\(.*\)$'`"

case "${N}-${O}" in
  0-${S}R.$sfx)
    # Stereo, no animation
    test -f "${S}L.$sfx" &&
      composite -depth 8 -stereo "${S}R.$sfx" "${S}L.$sfx" "${S}A.$sfx"
    ;;
  *-${S}R*.$sfx)
    # Stereo, animation frame
    digits=`expr "$O" : "${S}R\([0-9][0-9]*\)\."`
    test -f "${S}L${digits}.$sfx" &&
      composite -depth 8 -stereo "${S}R${digits}.$sfx" "${S}L${digits}.$sfx"
"${S}A${digits}.$sfx"
    ;;
esac

exit 0

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alphaQuad wrote:
> checking for approvals/rejections/suggestions/requirements from the group
> for initial splash.

Who is your audience? This image may appeal to the pimply-faced youth 
crowd, but fails to give any impression to the quality of POV-Ray as a 
renderer. Quite honestly the colors appear washed out, and the image 
looks as if it was tossed together hastily, by simply adding a geometric 
  figure, and a winged poser model over a body of generic 
silvery-looking water. And why is the image dithered? Are there still 
systems that only support 256 color images?

A splash screen should be bright and interesting, give the user a good 
first impression. This would only serve to drive me away and wonder what 
happened to the "good old days" of POV-Ray.

I sincerely hope this is a joke, and if so .... I don't get it. What did 
I miss?

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Mike Raiford <mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> alphaQuad wrote:
> > checking for approvals/rejections/suggestions/requirements from the group
> > for initial splash.
>
> Who is your audience?

I have no desire for an audience.

> This image may appeal to the pimply-faced youth

that was real, without being descriptive, nice of you to add that.

> crowd, but fails to give any impression to the quality of POV-Ray as a
> renderer. Quite honestly the colors appear washed out, and the image
> looks as if it was tossed together hastily, by simply adding a geometric

hastily, yes; And a requirement of the compilation and with respect to
contributors. You understand this concept of respect?
But, as a competitive icon, never!

>   figure, and a winged poser model over a body of generic
> silvery-looking water. And why is the image dithered? Are there still
> systems that only support 256 color images?

It is 8-bit because that is what was found as a splash.

>
> A splash screen should be bright and interesting, give the user a good
> first impression. This would only serve to drive me away

feel free.

> and wonder what
> happened to the "good old days" of POV-Ray.

cling to that past. it is the 7th and last ego payoff.

>
> I sincerely hope this is a joke, and if so .... I don't get it. What did
> I miss?

I do see a joke.

aQ

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a challenge to keep with so many brilliant minds.

Quick start is misleading:
Once ImageMagick is installed, Select Start->Programs->Command Prompt.  In
  the Command Prompt window type
      convert logo: logo.gif
      imdisplay logo.gif

no way not without a path.
when you open a prompt only default path is set.

It is difficult to expect Post_Frame_Command.sh to fly on auto.

any pointers?


so it works.
 but any ideas on the modules not closing?

C:\imagemagick>composite -depth 8 -stereo ionic6R.png ionic6L.png ionic6a.png
COMPOS~1.EXE: unable to close module `PNG': The operation completed successfully
..
..
COMPOS~1.EXE: unable to close module `RAW': The system cannot find the file spec
ified.
..

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Whoa didnt expect PSP to report 16 million colors.

24-bit 16777215
why cant I forget that number

can only guess why "composite -depth 8" did not produce an 8-bit image,
(or 16-bit from the assignment of
ImageMagick-6.3.7-2-Q16-windows-dll.exe)

obviously much to get aquainted

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