Steve Strickland wrote:
 >I'm just starting to write a converter where I use a java3D applet to
 >compose scenes and then convert them to a POVscript for final
 >rendering. My question is has anyone done that before? Any tips you'd
 >like to share?

As far as j3d is concerned: it only supports triangle meshes - it should 
be easy to convert those to POV-Ray mesh objects.

Tom Galvin wrote:
> Rather than starting from scratch, you may want to think about giving Sacha 
> a hand with his existing Java modeller.  

JPatch is work in progress and uses bicubic patches - it does not 
sopport any other primitives neither does it sopport CSG...

You may want to take a look at Art of Illusion (AOI) 
http://aoi.sourceforge.net/
It's a Java modeller and I think there's a POV-Export feature...

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