POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Lathe Conversion : Re: Lathe Conversion Server Time
1 Aug 2024 08:22:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Lathe Conversion  
From: Bill Pragnell
Date: 16 Sep 2008 11:00:00
Message: <web.48cfc900f861b490d5b77e4a0@news.povray.org>
Edouard Poor <pov### [at] edouardinfo> wrote:
> I was surprised that it looked good - I just put in a crackle just as a
> placeholder until I could come up with something nice, but it turned out
> looking really nice itself:

I'll have to remember that one, cheers.

> > Just in case you didn't know - Inkscape (an open-source vector editor) can
> > output POV-Ray splines directly. It defaults to prisms but it's a few seconds'
> > work to change them to lathes.
> Ahh, no, I had no idea it could do that. Still I'm a Adobe Illustrator
> and Photoshop fan from way back, so I'm happy to stick with what I know

Fair enough. It takes some tweaking to get lathe cross-sections right no matter
what you use!

> (I've tried Inkscape in the past, but there wasn't a native UI
> Mac OS X version last time I looked). Thanks for the pointer though!

Nothing wrong with the X11 interface in my book, but if you prefer the native
interface with more powerful tools then I really can't fault you! :-)


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