The technique is fantastic in Inkscape!

I had an bitmap image of (part of) the plan of the ancient city of Mohenjo 
Daro in Pakistan. Until now, I had used it as a height_field (not really 
satisfactory). In Inkscape, I used the trace function and exported the 
result to POV-Ray, and Lo! within minutes I had a 3D view of the 
archeological remains of the city!

I'll post an image when it finishes rendering.

Thanks Chris for this tip!!

Thomas

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"Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlnet> wrote in message 
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> The technique is fantastic in Inkscape!
>
> I had an bitmap image of (part of) the plan of the ancient city of Mohenjo 
> Daro in Pakistan. Until now, I had used it as a height_field (not really 
> satisfactory). In Inkscape, I used the trace function and exported the 
> result to POV-Ray, and Lo! within minutes I had a 3D view of the 
> archeological remains of the city!
>
> I'll post an image when it finishes rendering.
>
> Thanks Chris for this tip!!
>
> Thomas

Glad you're finding it useful.
I did the same sort of thing using Inkscapes edge detection with a plan of a 
maze and got a reasonable result in minutes.

I've written up the technique for doing floor plans and intend to put it up 
on an Internet site soon. I've written some macros that add windows, doors, 
lights and stuff so I'll post them too.

Regards,
Chris B.

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"Chris B" <c_b### [at] btconnectcomnospam> schreef in bericht 
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> Glad you're finding it useful.
> I did the same sort of thing using Inkscapes edge detection with a plan of 
> a maze and got a reasonable result in minutes.
>
> I've written up the technique for doing floor plans and intend to put it 
> up on an Internet site soon. I've written some macros that add windows, 
> doors, lights and stuff so I'll post them too.
>
Sounds very interesting. Looking forward to it.

Thomas

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"Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlnet> wrote in message 
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> "Chris B" <c_b### [at] btconnectcomnospam> schreef in bericht 
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>>
>> Glad you're finding it useful.
>> I did the same sort of thing using Inkscapes edge detection with a plan 
>> of a maze and got a reasonable result in minutes.
>>
>> I've written up the technique for doing floor plans and intend to put it 
>> up on an Internet site soon. I've written some macros that add windows, 
>> doors, lights and stuff so I'll post them too.
>>
> Sounds very interesting. Looking forward to it.
>
> Thomas

As promised --> http://www.geocities.com/povstairs/povhouse/index.htm
with full source.

Regards,
Chris B.

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"Chris B" <c_b### [at] btconnectcomnospam> schreef in bericht 
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>> Thomas
>
> As promised --> http://www.geocities.com/povstairs/povhouse/index.htm
> with full source.
>

Very nicely done, Chris!
Thank you very much indeed!

Thomas

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in news:44e32e1a$1@news.povray.org Chris B wrote:

> As promised --> http://www.geocities.com/povstairs/povhouse/index.htm
> with full source.
> 

Had a quick look. Nice.

Thanks,

Ingo

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Jaime Vives Piqueres <jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> wrote:
> ingo wrote:
> > How to build a house?
> >
> > Even though I actualy started using POV-Ray for that purpose I never
> >  actualy did it. Now I have to renovate my house and I'd like to
> > simulate a few things, especialy light and shadow and of course the
> > looks.
> >
> > Now, what is the easiest method, a box per wall? A prism? "brick by
> > brick"? Other methods?
>
>    I was facing the same question some weeks ago. I'm not planning a new
> house, but I wanted to model from real blueprints just to get real rooms
> with realistic proportions.
>
>    Finally, I found the most easy/fast method for me was to use Wings3D.
> I just used a box and an image plane with the blueprint for reference.
> (.... good explanation...)
> can take some screenshots of the process if you want...
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Jaime

Jaime:
Aha! I was looking at your newish "modern interior" pictures and I think
that this is the method you used, right? I am making a room using lots of
polygons and macros (i.e. window(wh,ww,wintype) windowwall(wh,ww,rh)
wall(l) ) that include molding, etc. but I now wish I had started out using
Wings3d too. Only in a visual modeller do I (personally) see the room coming
together. It's a lot faster for me than using CSG and spending a lot of time
sitting and visualizing things in my head or on graph paper as I have been.

I think I'll post an example of my project in p.b.i (can't resist) :) even
though it isn't as finished as Chris B's macros, which sound very
interesting...

Thanks Chris B! I will have to take a look at them...

Good luck Ingo. Since this thread is a few days old now, how's it going?

-Stefan

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Smws wrote:
> Jaime:
> Aha! I was looking at your newish "modern interior" pictures and I think
> that this is the method you used, right? 

   Yes, and I used later wings3d as a tool to locate the coords on the room
where I wanted to place the objects with POV-Ray: it's very useful also
for this (I still resist to use the modeller for the scene composition).

--
Jaime

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