Re: Did you know that...

Mark Hill wrote:

>> POV-Ray has an interesting ASCII output feature?
> 
> No, I didn't know that. :-)
> 
>> If you run it from console (I mean *real* console, not konsole, xvt
>> etc..), it'll output the raytraced image to the console, with ASCII!
> 
> And maybe you'll be able to take a screenshot using fbshot and and an
> ascii screenshot using screen(1)'s hardcopy feature. 

I tried to do that with a simple

$ povray chiave.pov > ascii_key.txt

but I had some errors, because the rendering screen goes past the right
border of the console, and there's a problem in my .pov concerning a
"black spot" or something like that, I don't remember.

I'm gonna try it with a simple sphere!

ObAscii - My sophisticated 3d editing suite:

[andrea@iridium]$ vi

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