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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: POV to GIF?
Date: 18 Nov 2001 09:40:36
Message: <3bf7c864@news.povray.org>
In article <3bf7c433$1@news.povray.org> , "Mahalis" <don### [at] fakeycom>
wrote:

> I do, but what I'm doing is converting hundreds of images in an animation; I
> was looking for a workaround for this.

Lots of programs can convert whole directories to a specific format.

    Thorsten

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From: Mahalis
Subject: Re: POV to GIF?
Date: 18 Nov 2001 11:04:25
Message: <3bf7dc09$1@news.povray.org>
Actually, I'm not intending to make an animated GIF out of the images.
There's a fairly new bit of software called Microsoft Agent- perhaps you've
seen it as the Office Assistant in MS Word- and they have also released a
software that lets you build your own characters. Unfortunately, space
requirements dictate that the program only accepts 256 color images. I'm
downloading DTA right now; it may be what I'm looking for.

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//Mahalis
camera{location<0,0.25,-2> look_at 0.5*y} #declare T=texture{pigment{crackle
scale 0.5 rotate 90 turbulence 0.75 color_map{[0 rgb 1][0.05 rgb 1][0.1
rgb<1,0.25,1>][0.25 rgbf 1][1 rgbf 1]}} finish{ambient 1}} #declare
c=difference{torus{0.5,0.1 rotate -90*x}box{<0.7,0,0.2>,<-0.7,-0.7,-0.2>}}
merge{object{c translate<0.5,0.5,0>} object{c translate<-0.5,0.5,0>}
cylinder{<1,0.5,0>,<1,0,0>,0.1} cylinder{<-1,0.5,0>,<-1,0,0>,0.1}
cylinder{0.5*y,0,0.1} texture{T}}
--


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From: Bill DeWitt
Subject: Re: POV to GIF?
Date: 18 Nov 2001 11:08:56
Message: <3bf7dd18@news.povray.org>
"Mahalis" <don### [at] fakeycom> wrote in message
news:3bf7dc09$1@news.povray.org...
> Actually, I'm not intending to make an animated GIF out of the images.
> There's a fairly new bit of software called Microsoft Agent- perhaps
you've
> seen it as the Office Assistant in MS Word- and they have also released a
> software that lets you build your own characters. Unfortunately, space
> requirements dictate that the program only accepts 256 color images. I'm
> downloading DTA right now; it may be what I'm looking for.

    Agent used to take bmp IIRC...


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From: Mahalis
Subject: Re: POV to GIF?
Date: 18 Nov 2001 11:11:07
Message: <3bf7dd9b$1@news.povray.org>
>     Agent used to take bmp IIRC...
Well, the character editor (at least the version I have) takes both
256-color BMPs and regular GIFs.


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From: Gilles Tran
Subject: Re: POV to GIF?
Date: 18 Nov 2001 12:58:11
Message: <3bf7f6b3$1@news.povray.org>

> as there was
> some legal stuff( that's it why POV doesn't support GIF any
> longer))

The latest Megapov didn't but 3.5 does support GIF. As I understand it, the
GIF legal tangle will be over soon since the patent expires in 2003
(specialists correct me if I'm wrong).

G.


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: POV to GIF?
Date: 18 Nov 2001 13:05:27
Message: <3BF7F8B0.A57015A@pacbell.net>
Gilles Tran wrote:

> The latest Megapov didn't but 3.5 does support GIF.

GIF input  - yes
Gif output - no

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From: Peter Popov
Subject: Re: POV to GIF?
Date: 18 Nov 2001 15:18:18
Message: <vn5gvtsiduhvkpqlq282t6ssqu59sqpacr@4ax.com>
On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 11:08:54 -0500, "Bill DeWitt"
<bde### [at] cflrrcom> wrote:

>    Agent used to take bmp IIRC...

I guess Microsoft can afford the Unisys patent :)

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From: Mahalis
Subject: Re: POV to GIF?
Date: 18 Nov 2001 15:27:48
Message: <3bf819c4$1@news.povray.org>
Dang. I guess that goes on the *wish list* for POV 4...

> GIF input  - yes
> Gif output - no


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: POV to GIF?
Date: 18 Nov 2001 15:56:26
Message: <3BF820C4.19222D4C@pacbell.net>
Mahalis wrote:
> 
> Dang. I guess that goes on the *wish list* for POV 4...
> 
> > GIF input  - yes
> > Gif output - no

Don't hold your breath. Why support and ancient outdated antiquated
inferior image format?

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Ken Tyler


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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: POV to GIF?
Date: 18 Nov 2001 16:00:08
Message: <3bf82158@news.povray.org>
In article <3bf819c4$1@news.povray.org> , "Mahalis" <don### [at] fakeycom>
wrote:

> Dang. I guess that goes on the *wish list* for POV 4...

No, POV-Ray does not and will not *ever* support output to a palette based
image format for exactly the same reason as there is no support for any
other lossy output image format.  No putting it on wish-lists and no number
of user requests will change the POV-Team policy not to support lossy output
image formats of any kind.

    Thorsten

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