Re: [Closed REQ 6040]: geomview 1.5 -> renderman

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Hi, there's a new release of geomview out.  Sorry, it doesn't change the
way that spheres are exported in RenderMan format.

If you don't actually need ray tracing, though, but just high-resolution
images, you can use the new (snapshot CAMID FILE ppm [XSIZE YSIZE]) command,
which renders arbitrary-sized (limited by available memory) ppm-format images
using a variant of the X renderer built into geomview.  The FILE can be a quoted
string beginning with a pipe sign to feed the data to a shell command, e.g.
if you have the netpbm toolkit programs installed,

  (snapshot focus "| pnmscale .5 | pnmtotiff > snap.tiff" ppm 3072 2048)

You can get the new release -- still in beta, but probably nearly final -- from
  ftp://geom.umn.edu/priv/slevy/geomview-161b8-src.tar.gz
  ftp://geom.umn.edu/priv/slevy/geomview-161b8-linux.tar.gz
  ftp://geom.umn.edu/priv/slevy/geomview-161b8-sgi.tar.gz
etc.

If you try it, please let us know how it works.


  Stuart Levy, Geometry Center