Rick's Chain Maker for POVRAY

Rick's Chain Maker is free tool for creating depth maps representing 3 dimensional frames of chain, in POVRAY (also FREE!) You can generate just about any chain frame shape you will ever need, at any resolution, by simply adjusting a few parameters. The depth maps are ideal for use by Carvewright and Sears Compucarve CNC machines, and in reduced polygon 3D surface modeling.

INSTRUCTIONS

Unzip to a folder on your hard disk. 
Load any of the example files into POVRAY, adjust the parameters to suit your needs,  and render.

See http://home.comcast.net/~chainmaker/ for more information.

Send comments to chainmaker@comcast.net. 

Copyright 2008 by Richard Swika

Rick's Chain Maker is the copyrighted intellectual property of Richard Swika. You may use the output of Rick's Chain Maker in any way, but you may not legally resell or distribute the Chain Maker source code or the contents of this website without the express written permission of Richard Swika. You may not claim authorship to the chain maker concept or to be the original creator of the resulting artwork.

Thanks and acknowledgments to the POVRAY team for making tools like Chain Maker possible and free! Much respect. Forward all donations to POVRAY.
