Re: [graphviz-interest] povray

Ron Savage <[email protected]> Thu, 31 Jul 2014 09:35:24 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.graphviz
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Hi Folkert

Oops. But not in answer to your question. Sorry.

On 30/07/14 22:52, folkert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been looking at the povray output.
> There's a couple of things I would like tell:
>
> 1- the "angle" in the output often becomes > 180
>    personally I would keep the angle as it is (135?) and adjust the
>    camera/watcher position
>
> 2- it uses the Times-Roman font indication which cannot be found. I
>    would like a command line switch to select a font-file and graphviz
>    then using that filename instead (that works on linux)
>
> 3- currently the output is like the regular svg/png/etc output but with
>    a nice background. maybe it can be improved by not only placing the
>    objects in a 2d-space but in a 3d space as well. then people could
>    create animations or whatever navigating through it.
>
> 4- povray scripts are not easily (=> not at all) convertible to an other
>    3d format. consider switching to something that can be easily
>    converted. maybe openscad? or blender?
>    especially if a user wants to navigate through the 3d-view (see point
>    3) then povray is not ideally as there's no software for doing so (I
>    know about kpovraymodeler but it is rather limited)
>
>
> Folkert van Heusden
>

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Ron Savage
savage.net.au
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