Did you know that...

POV-Ray has an interesting ASCII output feature?
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!

ObUglyAscii: rays

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             .        .        .
                .     .     .
                   .  .  .
                      o        
                   .  .  .
                .     .     .
             .        .        .
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Andrea Spadaccini a.k.a. Lupino
         - Catania -
Now playing: Freddie Mercury - Love Kills

On 2003-07-07, 
 Lupino <_lu...@libero.it> 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. 


OA:
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Mark Hill <mar...@yahoo.co.uk>
Slackware - "Dying" since 1996

"Lupino" <_lu...@libero.it> wrote 

> ObUglyAscii: rays

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                       o        
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diddled

I have also seen demos providing a ascii output (sometimes there's only an
ascii output).

"Lupino" <_lu...@libero.it> a �crit dans le message de news:
pan...@libero.it...
> POV-Ray has an interesting ASCII output feature?
> 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!
>
> ObUglyAscii: rays
>
>                       .
>              .        .        .
>                 .     .     .
>                    .  .  .
>                       o
>                    .  .  .
>                 .     .     .
>              .        .        .
>                       .
>
> --
> Andrea Spadaccini a.k.a. Lupino
>          - Catania -
> Now playing: Freddie Mercury - Love Kills
>

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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Andrea Spadaccini a.k.a. Lupino
         - Catania -
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