Announcing.....SkyPOV 0.1!

SkyPOV is an unofficial version of POV-Ray designed to do atmospheric 
effects.  It is based on MegaPOV 0.6a.  Due to computer problems beyond my 
control, it is currently available only as source code.  If I can find 
time, I will upload a Windows binary tomorrow.  If I can't, it will be 
available next Tuesday.

To compile, download the SkyPOV and MegaPOV 0.6a source code, copy the 
SkyPOV source over the MegaPOV source, and compile.

Source is available at
http://www.geocities.com/rengaw03/download/wskypovs.zip


Features:
 * Wavelength-dependant Rayleigh scattering
 * Infinite-light hack -- needed to make wavelength-dependant scattering
   look good
 * A few notes on how to use the program.
 * Two or three demo scenes

Features that might make a future version:
 * Colour curve post-processing to replace the infinite-light hack
 * Random rendering order
 * A polynomial parser to allow polys to be written as "3x^5+2xy+z-1" etc.
 * Assorted minor optimizations
 * Improved "quality" command-line options
 * Improved splines
 * Render time prediction
 * Fixed memory leaks

Might make it into version 99999
 * Variable IOR
 * Non-linear transforms
 * Spectral ray-tracing



--
Mark Wagner

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