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From: TonyB
Subject: I'm looking for a program...
Date: 23 Dec 1999 19:44:02
Message: <3862c1d2@news.povray.org>
...that will allow me to take as input a series of images (for example, an
animation output from POV) and put those images in one new image as a strip,
from left to right. Does anyone know of a program that will do this?


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From: Remco de Korte
Subject: Re: I'm looking for a program...
Date: 23 Dec 1999 20:52:40
Message: <3862D17A.C0E7516E@xs4all.nl>
TonyB wrote:
> 
> ...that will allow me to take as input a series of images (for
> example, an
> animation output from POV) and put those images in one new image as a
> strip,
> from left to right. Does anyone know of a program that will do this?

Yes, I have something that does that. Don't expect too much, I've made
it for my own use and the fact that _I_ can work with doesn't mean it's
a handy toy. Anyway, you might want to give it a try, just let me know.
Oh, and let me know what type of files you want it to read (it'll wirte
BMPs if that's okay with you). Last remark: Windows only...

Remco


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From: TonyB
Subject: Re: I'm looking for a program...
Date: 23 Dec 1999 21:06:19
Message: <3862d51b@news.povray.org>
>Yes, I have something that does that.

Excellent.

>Anyway, you might want to give it a try, just let me know.

Lemme have it...

ben### [at] panamac-comnet

>Oh, and let me know what type of files you want it to read (it'll wirte
>BMPs if that's okay with you). Last remark: Windows only...


Neither one of these 'conditions' bothers me.


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From: Greg M  Johnson
Subject: Re: I'm looking for a program...
Date: 27 Dec 1999 10:48:48
Message: <3867899E.7672EEF1@my-dejanews.com>
How about povray?

Just a little tweak to the image size, a diffuse 0 and ambient 1, an
orthographic camera, and voila!


TonyB wrote:

> ...that will allow me to take as input a series of images (for example, an
> animation output from POV) and put those images in one new image as a strip,
> from left to right. Does anyone know of a program that will do this?


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From: Ron Parker
Subject: Re: I'm looking for a program...
Date: 27 Dec 1999 23:40:30
Message: <38743e2d.37362750@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999 19:45:04 -0500, "TonyB"
<ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet> wrote:

>...that will allow me to take as input a series of images (for example, an
>animation output from POV) and put those images in one new image as a strip,
>from left to right. Does anyone know of a program that will do this?

pnmcat.  I think I've posted a link to the netpbm tools somewhere
around here before, maybe Ken has it?  The advantage is that it's
portable C code, so anyone can use it.  POV can even output directly
to PPM format (+FP on the command line) so you could put pnmcat in the
post-scene shellout.


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: I'm looking for a program...
Date: 27 Dec 1999 23:58:54
Message: <38684499.E4FF5287@pacbell.net>
Ron Parker wrote:

> pnmcat.  I think I've posted a link to the netpbm tools somewhere
> around here before, maybe Ken has it?

I got close to 6000 hits for netpbm on the yahoo search engine...

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From: Ron Parker
Subject: Re: I'm looking for a program...
Date: 28 Dec 1999 00:07:47
Message: <38774520.39141900@news.povray.org>
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999 21:03:21 -0800, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:

>
>
>Ron Parker wrote:
>
>> pnmcat.  I think I've posted a link to the netpbm tools somewhere
>> around here before, maybe Ken has it?
>
>I got close to 6000 hits for netpbm on the yahoo search engine...

You'll get fewer if you look for win32 versions, but you should still
get lots.


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From: Greg M  Johnson
Subject: Re: I'm looking for a program...
Date: 29 Dec 1999 08:57:49
Message: <386A129A.876F7BE8@my-dejanews.com>
Aww, come on.  Isn't my idea legitimate?  Couldn't you do this with less fuss in
setting up a new image size in povray than in finding and installing a new
program??????

Ron Parker wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Dec 1999 19:45:04 -0500, "TonyB"
> <ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet> wrote:
>
> >...that will allow me to take as input a series of images (for example, an
> >animation output from POV) and put those images in one new image as a strip,
> >from left to right. Does anyone know of a program that will do this?
>
> pnmcat.  I think I've posted a link to the netpbm tools somewhere
> around here before, maybe Ken has it?  The advantage is that it's
> portable C code, so anyone can use it.  POV can even output directly
> to PPM format (+FP on the command line) so you could put pnmcat in the
> post-scene shellout.


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From: Remco de Korte
Subject: Re: I'm looking for a program...
Date: 29 Dec 1999 10:57:51
Message: <386A2F12.CCF8893D@xs4all.nl>
Greg M. Johnson wrote:
> 
> Aww, come on.  Isn't my idea legitimate?  Couldn't you do this with
> less fuss in
> setting up a new image size in povray than in finding and installing a
> new
> program??????
> 

Well, I found it the easiest to write a little utility that does it AND
some thingy things more and I wouldn't have wanted to find out how to do
that with POV-Ray, because I think, although it is possible, POV-Ray
isn't really the best program for that. The advantage of something like
the program Ron mentioned is that you can also use it without POV (ins't
it?) and that it probably has some extra functionality.
Which, of course, doesn't mean your idea is legitimate and actually I
thought it was quite ingenious (is that a word?).

Remco


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From: Charles
Subject: Re: I'm looking for a program...
Date: 30 Dec 1999 14:07:06
Message: <386AB2DE.BE77E7A@enter.net>
"Greg M. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> Aww, come on.  Isn't my idea legitimate?  Couldn't you do this with less fuss in
> setting up a new image size in povray than in finding and installing a new
> program??????

Perfectly possible and more immediately cross-platform since it
would work with any platform that runs POV. I used a similar trick
a couple times for swapping the quadrants of an image as a step
in making images tilable. Just use the orthgraphic camera to avoid
perspective distortion and voila! The only caveat to observe is to
ensure you use no antialiasing and an image map interpolation type 
of zero to ensure the source images are not degraded by blending
or interpolation of any kind, but it should work quite easily.


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