Re: [Closed REQ 6161]: Success!

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Oh, that's great!

Toward producing some sort of movie file, you could include in the GCL script,
for each frame, a command of the form

  (snapshot Camera  imagefile [snapshot-type])

Here, "Camera" is the name of the geomview camera window (which is indeed
"Camera" by default).

The format of the image file, and allowed & default snapshot types,
depend on which version of geomview is running.  On the SGI, 
the default is to take an SGI-image-file screen snapshot.
On some versions, you can get a PPM-format screen snapshot:

  (snapshot Camera  imagefile.ppm  ppmscreen)

On all versions, you can get a software-rendered snapshot in PPM format:

  (snapshot Camera  imagefile.ppm  ppm)

For the ppm and ppmscreen snapshots, you can replace the filename with a
quoted string beginning with a vertical bar; the rest of the string is taken
as a shell command, and the ppm image data is piped to it.  For example,

  (snapshot Camera  "|gzip > image0001.ppm.gz"  ppmscreen)
or
  (snapshot Camera<1>  "|pnmtotiff > image0002.tiff" ppmscreen)

You could then use the Berkeley MPEG encoder package,
  http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/projects/mpeg/mpeg_encode.html

to assemble the separate frames into an MPEG movie.  Or, maybe better,
try getting the ImageMagick package, whose home page is at
  http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ImageMagick.html
I think it can do one-command-line conversion from a pile of image files 
into an MPEG movie.


As for a DXF-to-OOGL converter, you can try the one at
  ftp://geom.umn.edu/priv/slevy/dxf2oogl
This is a perl script.  It's nothing like a full DXF interpreter, but
seems to work on some files.