There is a new version of the RTrace ray-tracing package (8.0.0) at
asterix.inescn.pt [192.35.246.17] in directory pub/RTrace
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The MAC port is being prepared to be released by Reid Judd
(reid.judd at east.sun.com) and Greg Ferrar
(gregt at function.mps.ohio-state.edu).
A working version will be available shortly!
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Enhancements were done since version 7.3.2, mainly:
1. It has no limit on the number of objects to render (there is a
command line option to control it; scenes with up to 1000000 have been
rendered!).
The same applies to light sources and surfaces.
2. It is now possible to produce animation fly-throughs easily. The scene is
read only once and successive images are produced. There are new command
line options to specify it. The fly-throughs may be controlled by the
EYE and LOOK points, the UP vector and the APERTURE angles.
All there is to do is just create a text file with the numbers and give
it to the program...
The support programs 'nff2sff', 'nffclean' and 'nffp2pp' have been
enhanced to support unlimited number of objects, etc.
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Here goes a short description of current converters from
molecular/chemistry packages to the SCN format.
The package programs are related as below (those marked with * have been
modified)
irit2scn
IRIT -------------|
| NFF (nffclean*, nffp2pp*)
sol2scn | |
ACAD11 -----------+ | nff2sff*
| |
mol2scn v scn2sff v rtrace*
ALCHEMY -----------> SCN -----------> SFF ----------> PIC or PPM
^ cpp
pdb2scn |
PDB --------------|
|
chem2scn |
CHEMICAL --------------|
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The DOS port of RTrace is in pub/RTrace/PC-386 (rtrac800.arj and
utils800.arj). See the README file.
Requires DJGPP GO32 DOS extender (included), which can be found in
directory pub/PC/djgpp (and in many sites around netland).
There are also demo scenes, manuals and all the source code...
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Please feel free to get it and use it.
Hope you like it.
Regards,
Antonio Costa.
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