Another thing that's occurred to me that would be nice if it can be done is
a HTML page containing thumbnails and a short description of most of the
sample scenes. This could be included in the docs and the distro ... from
an end-users point of view, if I was installing POV for the first time, the
sample scenes would be the first thing I'd head for, and being able to see
what each one looks like in advance would be neat.

-- Chris

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Jim Holsenback wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm starting a new thread for the v3.7 example scenes project as this is a 
> side topic that came from the povray.ini thread and dosen't seem to really 
> belong there anymore.
> 
> Jim
> 
>

I'm reinstalling povray, and reading through all the beta notes. Once 
I'm awake and have my head wrapped around what I need to do, I'll start 
comparing a few images to make sure I understand it.

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Chris Cason schrieb:

> Another thing that's occurred to me that would be nice if it can be done is
> a HTML page containing thumbnails and a short description of most of the
> sample scenes. This could be included in the docs and the distro ... from
> an end-users point of view, if I was installing POV for the first time, the
> sample scenes would be the first thing I'd head for, and being able to see
> what each one looks like in advance would be neat.

For MegaPOV i made a script that builds such a page based on the header 
comments in the scene file - a somewhat extended version of what comes 
with the POV-Ray 3.6 Unix version.  The result:

http://megapov.inetart.net/samples.html

-- Christoph

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"Chris Cason" <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote in 
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> sounds like a good topic for the first or second round of the new IRTC ...
>
> -- Chris

yes .... i think thtas a great idea

Jim

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"Chris Cason" <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote in 
message news:4887b8f1$1@news.povray.org...
> Another thing that's occurred to me that would be nice if it can be done 
> is
> a HTML page containing thumbnails and a short description of most of the
> sample scenes. This could be included in the docs and the distro ... from
> an end-users point of view, if I was installing POV for the first time, 
> the
> sample scenes would be the first thing I'd head for, and being able to see
> what each one looks like in advance would be neat.
>
> -- Chris

it's seems like an easy enough thing to do .... should there be any 
agreement on image size and format (jpg, png, bmp)
How about 1024x768 jpg?

Jim

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"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote in message 
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> For MegaPOV i made a script that builds such a page based on the header 
> comments in the scene file - a somewhat extended version of what comes 
> with the POV-Ray 3.6 Unix version.  The result:
>
> http://megapov.inetart.net/samples.html
>
> -- Christoph

that's a nice clean format .... how did you do it? a html template file and 
awk, sed, perl?

Jim

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"Jim Holsenback" <jho### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message 
news:48876483@news.povray.org...
> Hello,
>
> I'm starting a new thread for the v3.7 example scenes project as this is a
> side topic that came from the povray.ini thread and dosen't seem to really
> belong there anymore.

I've completed a file manifest .... we have 365 pov files. I didn't count 
includes, ini or image files.

I've attached the breakdown.

Jim

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Attachments:
Download 'file-list.txt' (18 KB)

Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> For MegaPOV i made a script that builds such a page based on the header 
> comments in the scene file - a somewhat extended version of what comes 
> with the POV-Ray 3.6 Unix version.  The result:

> http://megapov.inetart.net/samples.html

  Does it take into account that not all scene files have an aspect ratio
of 4:3?

  (Personally I feel nothing more irritating than automatically rendered
images which use the wrong aspect ratio, squeezing the image horribly.)

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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Jim Holsenback <jho### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> it's seems like an easy enough thing to do .... should there be any 
> agreement on image size and format (jpg, png, bmp)
> How about 1024x768 jpg?

  Take into account that not all the scene files use an aspect ratio of 4:3.
Those which don't have to be rendered with the proper resolution.

  Probably the width of the rendered images could be fixed, while the
height depends on the aspect ratio.

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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Jim Holsenback schrieb:
> 
> that's a nice clean format .... how did you do it? a html template file and 
> awk, sed, perl?

it's a shell script analyzing the header comment of the scene files and 
rendering the scene and generating the list accordingly.

I will try to have a look at it during the weekend.

-- Christoph

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