Hi all,
        I recently constructed a 7 Node (+ 1 Masternode/Terminal & 1 Server)
parallel-processing Linux cluster as a high school science project partially
funded with a few grants from Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies.  In terms of
hardware, we are a Star topology single-pool heterogeneous 100 Base-T
switched cluster with speeds ranging from 450MHz to 800MHz, utilizing AMD
and Intel processors.  We are using standard TCP/IP utilizing DNS, DHCP,
NFS, NIS, FTP, Apache, and Samba.  For the operating system, we are using
Red Hat 7.3 Professional.   We have an equivalent cpu power of 6.5GHz.

    One of the things we initially wanted to do use image/video/audio
rendering.  For image (possibly video/animation?) I chose POVRay.  I have
downloaded and installed POVRay 3.5, then tested it with the ever popular
skyvase.  I just had a few questions:

1.) Is there a gui for Linux like windows? ( I know how to use the console
part)
2.) Is it possible to render video and animations?
3.) How can I convert existing images (bmp, jpg, gif, png,) to pov format?
4.) I can't render certain file because povray complains about no ini file,
any ideas?

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Miguel A. Mota Jr.
Cha### [at] Netzeronet

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In article <3d659825$1@news.povray.org>,
 "Miguel A. Mota" <wwh### [at] Hotmailcom> wrote:

> 1.) Is there a gui for Linux like windows? ( I know how to use the console
> part)

As far as I know, the only GUI is a preview that shows the image 
currently rendering, nothing as fancy as the Windows or Mac versions. 
I've never actually used it though, it could be more.


> 2.) Is it possible to render video and animations?

Yes, look in the manual. There is a "Making Animations" tutorial and a 
reference for all the animation options.


> 3.) How can I convert existing images (bmp, jpg, gif, png,) to pov format?

You don't. A .pov file is a description of the 3D scene to be rendered, 
an image is just a picture, a collection of color values over a 2D grid.

You can use images as input in a scene, to define the height of a height 
field, or the color or pattern of a texture for example. The Windows 
version supports BMP files, I don't know about the Linux version. JPEG, 
GIF, and PNG are supported by all platforms.


> 4.) I can't render certain file because povray complains about no ini file,
> any ideas?

That's probably not what it is complaining about, it is most likely just 
an unrelated warning. Give the exact error, make sure it is an error and 
not a warning, and make sure you don't miss any other errors. If it is 
one of the standard scene files, tell us which one, otherwise try to 
trim it down to the smallest scene that shows the problem. Also give the 
settings you used to render it.

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Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
http://home.earthlink.net/~cjameshuff/
POV-Ray TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
http://tag.povray.org/

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On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 22:00:15 -0400, "Miguel A. Mota"
<wwh### [at] Hotmailcom> wrote:

>1.) Is there a gui for Linux like windows? ( I know how to use the console
>part)

Pyvon should give you a good start. You can find a link to it on
povray.org


Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
Personal e-mail : pet### [at] vipbg
TAG      e-mail : pet### [at] tagpovrayorg

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There is also this one.

http://povedit.sourceforge.net/

Peter Popov wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 22:00:15 -0400, "Miguel A. Mota"
> <wwh### [at] Hotmailcom> wrote:
> 
>>1.) Is there a gui for Linux like windows? ( I know how to use the console
>>part)
> 
> Pyvon should give you a good start. You can find a link to it on
> povray.org
> 
> 
> Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
> Personal e-mail : pet### [at] vipbg
> TAG      e-mail : pet### [at] tagpovrayorg

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