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POV-Ray Projects

Virtual scenes, macros and animations I've created using the freeware raytracer, POV-Ray. See my artwork page for renders.

Tutorials:

Link	Sprite Assembly Tutorial: A tutorial on assembling and compositing sprites into contact sheets using ImageMagick.
Link	Dithering Tutorial: A tutorial on dithering transparency information using ImageMagick.
Link	LDraw to SimCity 3000 Unlimited Tutorial: A tutorial describing how to import renderings (in this case of LDraw models) into SimCity 3000 Unlimited.
Link	Polarized Glasses Tutorial: A tutorial describing how to render scenes (again of LDraw models) so that they can be viewed in 3D using polarized glasses.
Link	High Precision Heightfields: A tutorial describing how to generate (and then import) high precision heightfields using POV-Ray alone.
Link	Object Collection Migration: An article describing efforts to migrate compatible or abandoned scenes to the POV-Ray Object Collection.
Link	How to turn a continuous function into a stepped function: An tutorial describing how to turn a linear function/gradient into a stepped variant.

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Updated "screen.inc": An updated version of "screen.inc" with better support for different camera types, as well as the capability to get the 2D screen coordinates of any 3D object.

Collections:

Link View image	Grid & Axes Include: I've created an include file that renders a grid and axes onto your scene. You can select its overall size and detail, as well as choose to hide or show a particular plane.
Link View image	Fractal Objects: A collection of fractal objects. There are three fractals to choose from at the moment: the Menger Sponge, the Sierpinski Pyramid and the Sierpinski Tetrahedron. All three objects can be used in CSG operations.
Link View image	Cube Fonts: A macro to create text characters that intersect and form 3D blocks (called an "ambigram") that show different letters depending on the face of the cube you're looking at.
Link View image	Shape Grid Objects: This macro creates an object in the shape of a grid of longitudinal, lattitudinal and radial lines found on a sphere. The thickness of the "lines" of the grid remains constant. The object can be used as an object within a CSG operation (e.g., intersection or difference), or as an object pattern (e.g., a pigment). An example scene is provided to show three different ways of using the object.
Link View image	Color Space Pigments: The HSL (Hue, Saturation, Lightness), HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value) and RGB (Red, Green, Blue) color spaces mapped to various shapes.
Link View image	Lego Road Macros: My POV-Ray macros for creating LDraw-style roads.
Link View image	Random Solar System Generator: An include file for generating random solar system scenes.
Link View image	Earth-like Planet Texture: A WIP texture that is meant to resemble the Earth.
Link DL Add-on View image	Game Sprites: A collection of objects and scenes initially created for GearHead and intended for use in 2D, isometric video games. The special effects "add-on" is available from this page as well.
Link View image	Sprite Objects: A collection of objects set up to be used in 2D, isometric video games. In this case, all objects were created by Francisco Mu�oz Cotobal and are used by permission.