Hi guys, I was wondering if it is possible to render an object as wireframe
with povray. If that is possible, how do I do that.

Thanks in advance

Fidel.

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Fidel viegas scribis
news:B94B5920.415%fid### [at] artrecognitioncouk: 

> Hi guys, I was wondering if it is possible to render an object as
> wireframe with povray. If that is possible, how do I do that.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Fidel.
> 
> 

The only way I know of is if your object actually *is*
a wireframe. There is no switch, no option, no setting that
is native to POVRay that displays a wireframe version of
your scene. :(

-- 
Gis poste, Arto.

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On Fri, 05 Jul 2002 14:09:36 +0100, Fidel viegas
<fid### [at] artrecognitioncouk> wrote:
> Hi guys, I was wondering if it is possible to render an object as wireframe
> with povray. If that is possible, how do I do that.

Internal representation of objects not contains wireframe structures. But
since SDL can do everything ;-) take a look at
http://news.povray.org/search/?s=povgui

ABX

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Fidel viegas wrote:
> 
> Hi guys, I was wondering if it is possible to render an object as wireframe
> with povray. If that is possible, how do I do that.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 

Apart from what has been said:

http://www.students.tut.fi/~warp/povQandT/languageQandT.html#wireframes


Christoph

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Arthur Flint <mra### [at] chesapeakenet> wrote:
> There is no switch, no option, no setting that
> is native to POVRay that displays a wireframe version of
> your scene. :(

  That's because there exist no concept of "wireframe" in a raytracer.
A wireframe needs essentially edges, and there are no edges in smooth
surfaces.
  A raytracer handles mathematical surfaces, not polygons. An object made of
polygons can be represented as "wireframe" (by drawing a line for each edge
of the polygon); that's because an object made of polygons has edges. But
POV-Ray doesn't use polygons to represent objects.

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Warp wrote:
> 
> Arthur Flint <mra### [at] chesapeakenet> wrote:
> > There is no switch, no option, no setting that
> > is native to POVRay that displays a wireframe version of
> > your scene. :(
> 
>   That's because there exist no concept of "wireframe" in a raytracer.
> A wireframe needs essentially edges, and there are no edges in smooth
> surfaces.
>   A raytracer handles mathematical surfaces, not polygons. An object made of
> polygons can be represented as "wireframe" (by drawing a line for each edge
> of the polygon); that's because an object made of polygons has edges. But
> POV-Ray doesn't use polygons to represent objects.

And besides all that, POV-Ray has no internal support for wire frame views
of objects.

-- 
Ken Tyler :)

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Ken scribis news:3D2649C1.4208BAFE@pacbell.net:

> POV-Ray has no internal support for wire frame views
> of objects.
> 

Didn't I say the same thing?

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"Fidel viegas" <fid### [at] artrecognitioncouk> wrote in message
news:B94B5920.415%fid### [at] artrecognitioncouk...
> Hi guys, I was wondering if it is possible to render an object as wireframe
> with povray. If that is possible, how do I do that.

Dave Dunn had made some headway into creating wireframes of objects and I
believe has posted the file(s) in one of the newsgroups here. Would be worth a
look, called POV-GUI, I think. I would locate it for you but it's a cumbersome
process for me at this time.

bob h

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I'll have a look at it.
Thanks for the info.

Fidel.

in article 3d2bf188@news.povray.org, Bob H. at
per### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:%20&body=Relating%20to%20POV-Ray:
wrote on 10/7/02 9:27 am:

> "Fidel viegas" <fid### [at] artrecognitioncouk> wrote in message
> news:B94B5920.415%fid### [at] artrecognitioncouk...
>> Hi guys, I was wondering if it is possible to render an object as wireframe
>> with povray. If that is possible, how do I do that.
> 
> Dave Dunn had made some headway into creating wireframes of objects and I
> believe has posted the file(s) in one of the newsgroups here. Would be worth a
> look, called POV-GUI, I think. I would locate it for you but it's a cumbersome
> process for me at this time.
> 
> bob h
> 
> 
>

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