...well, I hope you do not see it this way.

I have written a little software tool called IC, that might come in 
handy, especially if you are using POV-Ray 3.7 beta.

IC combines the features of common image viewers but with full 
read/write support for HDRI formats (as you know it from HDRShop)
and it supports a lot more HDR formats than HDRShop does.
E.g. OpenEXR from ILM, a nifty file format that is also supported for 
read/write by POV-Ray 3.7. So you can use IC to open the famous
Kitchen-Probe, remap it from angular to latitude/longitude (as
needed for POV 3.7 with map_tape 1) and save it as OpenEXR file.

POV-Ray 3.7 OpenEXR output can be enabled with 'E' option, as I did, by 
writing Output_File_Type=E into povray.ini.

OpenEXR files provide a 'higher' dynamic range and higher precession 
than the usual (and quite old) Radiance format - and it supports alpha 
channels.

IC can also help you in avoiding color banding as it uses a dithering 
method when it converts to simple 8bps formats like e.g.jpeg.

I've been told that IC works with VISTA but I had no chance to test this 
by myself. I would also be interested if it works by using WINE. Yes, 
sorry, no Linux version yet.

I did quickly put up a web page (somehow functional, I hope, but 
unfinished) where you can read the related documentation and download 
IC. I just wanted to make it available before easter because I'm quite 
in a hurry in the moment and I know that I will have no time for working 
on IC during the next few weeks. RL, you know.

But feel free to email me directly if you have any trouble with IC.


happy easter everybody
-Ive

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aaargh, and here comes the link...


http://www.lilysoft.org

-Ive

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Ive <"ive### [at] lilysoftorg"> wrote:
> aaargh, and here comes the link...
>
>
> http://www.lilysoft.org
>
> -Ive

I'm downloading. :-)

> * There are also a few computer generated images and finally some pieces of
> music, my hobby and during the last 30 years occasionally even my profession. *

I look forward!!!

--
Carlo

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> I've been told that IC works with VISTA but I had no chance to test this
>  by myself. I would also be interested if it works by using WINE. Yes, 
> sorry, no Linux version yet.

   Works fine here on Fedora with Wine... and looks very useful after playing
with it for some minutes: just the thing I was looking for, so I can render
all my scenes directly to hdr format. Many thanks!

--
Jaime

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Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:
>   Works fine here on Fedora with Wine... and looks very useful after 
> playing
> with it for some minutes: just the thing I was looking for, so I can render
> all my scenes directly to hdr format. Many thanks!
> 
> -- 
> Jaime


Good to know and thanks a lot for trying it out.

-Ive

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Ive escribió:
> Good to know and thanks a lot for trying it out.

   I've installed Wine recently to try Adobe Reader, as a customer sends me
PDFs with annotations which I cannot see with Linux viewers. It worked
nicely... and seems to work fine with anything I try. Poseray works very
well, and I finally discovered how good it is at exporting to POV-Ray. And
I've just tried the last 3.7 beta, and works like a charm: it even uses 2
threads!

   Now I'm trying to figure out how to make IC the default app to open HDR
files from my file manager...

--
Jaime

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Among other things, Jaime Vives Piqueres saw fit to write:

>  I've installed Wine recently to try Adobe Reader, as a customer sends me
> PDFs with annotations which I cannot see with Linux viewers.

Can't you install Adobe Reader on linux instead? I use it every (though I've
stuck to version 7, as the new versions don't allow to "page back" to a
just closed file). I've seen annotations with this version, and even
created them (for PDFs with this feature enabled), unles the "annotations"
you mean are a different thing.

Try here: http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/

-- 
light_source{9+9*x,1}camera{orthographic look_at(1-y)/4angle 30location
9/4-z*4}light_source{-9*z,1}union{box{.9-z.1+x clipped_by{plane{2+y-4*x
0}}}box{z-y-.1.1+z}box{-.1.1+x}box{.1z-.1}pigment{rgb<.8.2,1>}}//Jellby

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Jellby escribió:
> Can't you install Adobe Reader on linux instead?

   IIRC, I had a problem with a lot of dependencies and then thought that
using Wine with the Windows version would take less time (I had to comment
on the annotations urgently). But I'm glad it served to re-evaluate Wine:
it's very useful to run these "must-have" applications that only run on
Windows, like IC or Poseray.

--
Jaime

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This is a very usefull little tool indeed! Thank you very much.

Thomas

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Carlo C. wrote:
>> * There are also a few computer generated images and finally some pieces of
>> music, my hobby and during the last 30 years occasionally even my profession. *
> 
> I look forward!!!
> 
> --
> Carlo
> 

Well, finally I did put up two CGI&M items and more to come, but the 
'music' requires an ActiveX component and I guess I have to rethink this 
whole mess, maybe a blog-like setup would be better, anyway thats it for 
now so...

...enjoy
-Ive

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Ive <"ive### [at] lilysoftorg"> wrote:
> Well, finally I did put up two CGI&M items and more to come, but the
> 'music' requires an ActiveX component and I guess I have to rethink this
> whole mess, maybe a blog-like setup would be better, anyway thats it for
> now so...

Hey, I do dig that "Bist Du noch da" song!

Is the "staccato" guitar original performance or postwork? It really sounds
intriguing.

Excellent renders. I'm somewhat missing the blue light on the lonely woman's
face that was in the original shot. Just a bit of a filler, not strong enough
to illuminate the wall.

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clipka wrote:
> Hey, I do dig that "Bist Du noch da" song!

;)

> Is the "staccato" guitar original performance or postwork? It really sounds
> intriguing.

Guitars are all 'hand made' but also heavily post processed with lots of 
digital effect machines.

> I'm somewhat missing the blue light on the lonely woman's
> face that was in the original shot.
> 
Yes, me too, wanted to make it more subtle this time, guess its way too 
subtle now. Oh yeah, seems I'll have to do a remake - in 7 years or so...

-Ive

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Great tool, thank you!

Slight UI issues:

I tried whether the mouse wheel would zoom, but
IC loaded the next image in the directory. I think
this is a bit harsh for a mouse wheel action, especially
if the directory also contains largish files ;) it may
have been an unintended side effect of mapping this
functionality to page up / page down.

Also, the zoom keys don't work initially as a fit
image to window lock is active by default. Usually,
zooming in overrides such a setting. Possibly, only
fit when resizing the window or loading a new image?

Finally, the popup menus display some strange boxes
after the text which reminds me of unix newlines in
a windows editor but could really be anything.

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Ive <"ive### [at] lilysoftorg"> wrote:
> Carlo C. wrote:
> >> * There are also a few computer generated images and finally some pieces of
> >> music, my hobby and during the last 30 years occasionally even my profession. *
> >
> > I look forward!!!
> >
> > --
> > Carlo
> >
>
> Well, finally I did put up two CGI&M items and more to come, but the
> 'music' requires an ActiveX component and I guess I have to rethink this
> whole mess, maybe a blog-like setup would be better, anyway thats it for
> now so...
>
> ...enjoy
> -Ive

WOW!
"Bist Du noch da" is my new soundtrack!
:-)

--
Carlo

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Christian Froeschlin wrote:
> Great tool, thank you!
>

Thanks for testing it.

> Slight UI issues:
> 
> I tried whether the mouse wheel would zoom, but
> IC loaded the next image in the directory. I think
> this is a bit harsh for a mouse wheel action, especially
> if the directory also contains largish files ;) it may
> have been an unintended side effect of mapping this
> functionality to page up / page down.

Hmm, in fact it was intended because I did find it
quite comfortable to leans relaxed back and browse
a directory with image maps by just using the mouse
wheel. But you definitely have a point here. It seems
everybody besides me does expect the wheel to work
for zooming.

> Also, the zoom keys don't work initially as a fit
> image to window lock is active by default. Usually,
> zooming in overrides such a setting. Possibly, only
> fit when resizing the window or loading a new image?
> 

I'll see what can be done about that for the next version.


> Finally, the popup menus display some strange boxes
> after the text which reminds me of unix newlines in
> a windows editor but could really be anything.

That's indeed strange. What OS Version are you using?

-Ive

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Ive wrote:

>> Finally, the popup menus display some strange boxes
>> after the text which reminds me of unix newlines in
>> a windows editor but could really be anything.
> 
> That's indeed strange. What OS Version are you using?

XP SP2. I'll send you a small portion of a screenshot
by mail instead of starting a thread in p.b.i. I also
noticed the menu closes when you press the Alt key
which complicates making screenshots of it ;)

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Christian Froeschlin wrote:

> Finally, the popup menus display some strange boxes
> after the text which reminds me of unix newlines in
> a windows editor but could really be anything.

The problem has been fixed by the updated version
on the website.

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