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  Re: Animating light pulses following curved paths in an Optical CPU  
From: zeroin23
Date: 18 Aug 2007 06:15:00
Message: <web.46c6c5f468cfae07b0f5bef80@news.povray.org>
just tried on inkscape 0.45, there is now a option to save as .pov
8)

"scam" <sca### [at] mailusydeduau> wrote:
> "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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