http://www.sucs.swan.ac.uk/~edon/JRay/

I am developing an interface for the POV-Ray program. And I am looking
for feed-back. As yet fairly comprehensive scenes can be created with a
fair amount of ease. Although only the basic primitives have been
catered for as yet. I would like as many people as possible to try the
system out so I would know how to develop it more. 

It is designed to work across an Intranet or the Internet, Where fast
POV-Ray servers are placed across that Intranet, when designing a world
the user would send the picture across the network to this Fast Server
for rendering. However as yet I have not got a fast Server, so the
program cannot ray-trace... however if anyone has an extremely fast
computer that they don't mind me installing the server software on then
I will do so... :o)...

The program is written entirely in Java... so should (in theory) run on
any computer... 

The program can be downloaded from...

http://www.sucs.swan.ac.uk/~edon/JRay/

cheers

Ben

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In article <351### [at] 10mbcom>, edo### [at] 10mbcom wrote:

> http://www.sucs.swan.ac.uk/~edon/JRay/
> 
> I am developing an interface for the POV-Ray program. And I am looking
> for feed-back. As yet fairly comprehensive scenes can be created with a
> fair amount of ease. Although only the basic primitives have been
> catered for as yet. I would like as many people as possible to try the
> system out so I would know how to develop it more. 
> 
> It is designed to work across an Intranet or the Internet, Where fast
> POV-Ray servers are placed across that Intranet, when designing a world
> the user would send the picture across the network to this Fast Server
> for rendering. However as yet I have not got a fast Server, so the
> program cannot ray-trace... however if anyone has an extremely fast
> computer that they don't mind me installing the server software on then
> I will do so... :o)...
> 
> The program is written entirely in Java... so should (in theory) run on
> any computer... 
> 
> The program can be downloaded from...
> 
> http://www.sucs.swan.ac.uk/~edon/JRay/
> 
> cheers
> 
> Ben

Servers sounds like a very good idea to me!


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Pardon me for being critical, and I don't mean to flame, but
why don't you get the thing to talk to POV on the same 
machine first, and when you verify -that- is working right, 
-then- get it to work over the internet...

Seems to me like you're getting ahead of yourself here. 

And you'd have more people willing to spend time with
it if it DID something. 

The idea of using somebody else's computer to do your 
rendering has appeal IF you have something to render, 
but what would motivate someone to place his machine
online so that -others- could render -their- stuff on it? 

Get it to work on ONE machine first, damnit!

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I think your missing the point... 
I have already had it working on one machine, where it's output renders
fine, and I have already got this working on a small intranet, where a
Server performs the rendering...

The reason for me doing this project this way is because that is the way
the project was defined. I am a final year student in computer science,
and the whole point of the project is to create an efficient
client/server application, when I have finished this task and hopefully
got good grades for it I will probably develop a stand-alone version in
my free-time. 

The idea of sticking POV-Ray on a server is that the server in theory
should perform the rendering a lot faster than your home computer... I
am hoping to get access to one of the fast computers found in Swaansea
uni... (hopefully the cray.. but I doubt it somehow).. and set that up
as a server.

The project itself wasn't really desgined as an interface for POV-Ray
but as an interface to any Rendering package that could work across the
internet.. it's just I choose to use POV-Ray cause of it's ease of use
and it's wide use...

erm

anyway..

I hope that explains my reasons a bit better...

Cheers

Ben..

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