"Olaf Doschke" <b2x### [at] t-onlinede>
wrote:
> Hi again!
>
> Let me define a framework for those
> simple objects to render a series of
> application icons from them:
>
> This is just a first shot at it - could work,
> the camera may be too close to the
> object, as the box looks too skewed.
>
> I'll do some fine tuning and add a sample
> animation and a sample icon/object.
>
> // your simple object here
> // (should fit into this 1 unit box):
> #declare simpleobject=
> box {<-.5,-.5,-.5>,<.5,.5,.5>
>      pigment{color rgb 1}
>      rotate<0,-45,0>}
>
> // please just slight changes here.
> // same (and simple) camera and
> // lightning for any icon
> // to make them look equal.
>
> // render with a square resolution
> // eg 128x128 AA 0.1
> // command line options:
> // +UA +FN16
>
> camera
>   {
>     perspective
>     location <0,-1,-2>
>     look_at <0,0,0>
>     right x
>     up y
>     sky y
>   }
>
> light_source
>   {
>     <-1,-1,-3>, rgb 1.5
>   }
>
> background {rgbt <0,0,0,1>}
>
> object {simpleobject}
>
> Bye, Olaf.

Hello, Olaf.

I am afraid most of what you are looking for is scattered all over the
internet. There are many POV-artists who share their code, but not all in
one place- with one exception: the POV Object Collection at

http://objects.povworld.org/

It hasn't updated recently, for whatever reason, but many interesting things
are available there, including some things you are looking for. The
interface is very intuitive. Of course, most objects will have to be
resized to fit into your framework (min_extent() and max_extent() may come
in handy), any you should make sure you understand the author's terms of
use.

The other place I can recommend is all the old IRTC entries at
http://www.irtc.org/stills/index.html
You have to look around a bit, but if you go to the "viewing page" for a
given contest, you will see many of the submissions have source code
included in .zip form, and usually tell you more about it in the .txt
description. You could go through the images looking for what you need, and
see if that image has source.

Of course, in this case too it would be good to understand the terms of use
of the author.

Hope this helps--

Stefan

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