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  Re: Animating light pulses following curved paths in an Optical CPU  
From: scam
Date: 11 Dec 2006 07:15:01
Message: <web.457d4b4468cfae0719862de70@news.povray.org>
"Chris B" <c_b### [at] btconnectcomnospam> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You may care to look at InkScape, which is a free 2D SVG editor which can
> output vector graphics based shapes as POV-Ray prism obect definitions. The
> prism objects contain bezier_splines that you could use in POV-Ray to track
> along the curves. You'd need to extract the splines and wrap it in
> appropriate SDL for declaring the splines. If the shapes get complicated
> you'd probably want to write a script to do that.
>
> Regards,
> Chris B.

That looks like it will work perfectly, thanks for the great tip! I can move
the entire project from Illustrator to InkScape, and do the two hardest
steps in one hit. Cheers mate.


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