> So what have you used them for? Have you managed to use one in your day job?

I mainly use POV for my day job, creating photo-realistic images from 
CAD models. The best bit is when people ask to see the actual prototype, 
when I tell them it hasn't been made yet, they ask where the photo came 
from :-)

I also used it to create some pictures for some training slides in my 
old job, to illustrate the difference between diffuse and specular 
reflection.

I would like to use POV more out of work, but there are so many things 
to do and so little time...

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1) Image measurement.  We had some wafers manufactured with different etch
process for "tungsten plugs", "contact arrays", or tungsten vias, depending on
what terminology you prefer. For some reason, they could not be measured in-fab,
so I had a technician take a bunch of pictures of the vias from each process
split. Then I created height fields out of the images-- they all looked like
Devil's Tower.  Then I used povray to get "all" of the diameters, and spit out
some statistics as to X, Y, min, etc...  One of the coolest parts of the
analysis was I made some huge mistake which was caught by the (internal)
customer, and he pointed it out.  But I was able to correct the povray code and
re-run the whole simulation right in front of him, which I think only added to
the credibility of the whole operation.

2) Character Animation.  My 2nd level manager saw our CEO make a presentation in
Second Life and asked me to help him do one, too. It turned out this wasn't
entirely practical, but the request morphed into making an animation that
explained the "characterization" process for semiconductor process development.
I worked on it (90% on my own time) for over half a year. We presented it to a
project meeting. Years later I submitted it to a video contest ran by the
International Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis.  I got 2nd place.
Here's ASM's listing of the video. If I'd gotten 1st place, it would have meant
a free (>$850)ticket to next year's conference.
100% of everything is povray: the people are blobs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgtXRQ8Py4U




"FNH" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> For myself, I used them to create
>
> Computer desktop background
> Posters
> Animations as part of advertisements
> Book covers
> Audiobook covers
> Handouts in an RPG session
>
> So what have you used them for? Have you managed to use one in your day job?

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> "FNH" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > For myself, I used them to create
> >
> > Computer desktop background
> > Posters
> > Animations as part of advertisements
> > Book covers
> > Audiobook covers
> > Handouts in an RPG session
> >
> > So what have you used them for? Have you managed to use one in your day job?

I use PovRay for my own arts, it is just a hobby.


"gregjohn" <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> 2) Character Animation.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgtXRQ8Py4U
>
Big work, when I hear someone who says that Povray is not a good rendering
engine, they should see your video, they will be wondering by your work. I like
the people of this animation.

Lionel.

Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he
may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

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Desktop and phone backgrounds

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"Fractracer" <lg.### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>
> "gregjohn" <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> > 2) Character Animation.
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgtXRQ8Py4U
> >
> Big work, when I hear someone who says that Povray is not a good rendering
> engine, they should see your video, they will be wondering by your work. I like
> the people of this animation.
>

Thanks. I do think that the animation power of povray is a great selling point.
I've played with other packages which require mouse-manipulation of hundreds of
spline curves, and it's madenning.

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On 1/4/2014 8:46 AM, FNH wrote:
> For myself, I used them to create
>
> Computer desktop background
> Posters
> Animations as part of advertisements
> Book covers
> Audiobook covers
> Handouts in an RPG session
>
> So what have you used them for? Have you managed to use one in your day job?
>
>
>

I have used POV-Ray, GeoGebra and InkScape to create illustrations for 
Wikipedia.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SharkD

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On 1/4/2014 7:46 AM, FNH wrote:
> For myself, I used them to create
>
> Computer desktop background
> Posters
> Animations as part of advertisements
> Book covers
> Audiobook covers
> Handouts in an RPG session
>
> So what have you used them for? Have you managed to use one in your day job?

Mocking a former employer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqc21OzDUQw

Regards,
John

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On 1/7/2014 6:41 AM, gregjohn wrote:
 > Thanks. I do think that the animation power of povray is a great 
selling point.
 > I've played with other packages which require mouse-manipulation of 
hundreds of
 > spline curves, and it's madenning.

Where POV-Ray shines most in animation is those applications where 
motion follows a path that has a solid mathematical basis.  Character 
animation does not lend itself to hand-edited scripts, but the motion of 
planets and many kinds of mechanical objects (and non-humanoid robots) 
is very elegantly described with numeric expressions in scripts.

Regards,
John

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> Mocking a former employer:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqc21OzDUQw

   I remember that one... the most fun, elegant and original mockery ever!

--
jaime

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On 04/01/14 13:46, FNH wrote:
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> So what have you used them for? Have you managed to use one in your day job?

Remember those moon landscape + water + atmosphere pictures I was doing
a while back?

http://www.republicmoon.org/microsite/2


(I eventually collected them, plus all the source code, on
https://cowlark.com/flooded-moon.)

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