POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : 2D graphical elements : Re: 2D graphical elements Server Time
27 Jun 2024 13:43:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 2D graphical elements  
From: Trevor G Quayle
Date: 11 Feb 2011 08:40:00
Message: <web.4d553b451ecabac281c811d20@news.povray.org>
Le_Forgeron <lef### [at] freefr> wrote:
> Le 11/02/2011 02:25, SharkD a écrit :
> > I think it would be good to have a series of 2D graphical elements to
> > use to display on-screen elements like text, arrows, guidelines, etc.
> > for creating diagrams and such. But, it would be kind of complicated
> > with POV-Ray's existing 3D elements.
> >
> > Anyone want to help with such a project?
> >
> > I'm thinking that copying SVG's syntax would be good. Positing them on
> > the screen would also be difficult.
> >
> >
>
> Flyspray #63 get closed because of lack of answer from OP (guess who
> opened it ?) (more about SVG in it!)
>
> Have you investigated the screen.inc from the distribution ?
>
>
> --
> Software is like dirt - it costs time and money to change it and move it
> around.
>
> Just because you can't see it, it doesn't weigh anything,
> and you can't drill a hole in it and stick a rivet into it doesn't mean
> it's free.

The problem with screen.inc or any other method that places an actual object on
the image, is that it falls apart when using focal blur.
It would be nice to have a way of adding 2D elements to the image that can be
done easily, and are not affected by the camera.

-tgq


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