Gilles Tran wrote:

>news:3f5c92fe[at]news.povray.org...
>> I'm not sure what Ulead Cool 3D can do, but this looks like some type of
>> post processing to me. I'd like to hear a second opinion.
>
>From the feature list and screen shots
>(http://www://www.ulead.com/cool3d/screen.htm Cool 3D looks indeed like a 3D
>modeller/renderer, but a highly specialised one for titles and 3D effects to
>be used in websites, presentations and publications. So it's perhaps
>blurring the line a little between 2D and 3D (hard to say without trying it)
>but it's still within the rules IMHO.

I remembered that I have a copy of Cool3d that I used to create a band logo
awhile back. It is essentially the same as an old shareware program called
Xara3d.  It does indeed toe the line between 2d & 3d.  It basically take a
2d image such as a font, and extrudes it into a 3d shape.  The extrusion
and rendering processes allow you to apply effects & filters much like in
2d programs like Photoshop.

Questionable whether it's truly 3d, since many of the effects/filters can
only be applied in the final render, not to the object itself, but I don't
really see any difference between that and post-process effects being done
in a render in for example Mega-POV.  The rules don't say an effect has to
be 3d, they just say they have to be done in a 3d program. For the image in
question, I gave him the benefit of the doubt.

RG

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