Building 3-D Objects and Animations

How? (Are 3-D rendering packages too complex ?)

POV-Ray uses a source file and a Scene Description Language

• Lighting: ambient, point and complex light source

• Camera: viewpoint, field of view (special effects)

• Simple Objects: sphere, cylinder, box

• Transformations: translation, rotation, scale

• Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG): Mathematically oriented object combinations: union, intersection, difference

  Object example: Car Parts

• Scripting: loops, calculations, (structured) programing, functions, macros, include files

• Animation Frame creation tools

  conical pendulum source

  
  VirtualDub creates actual media file from frames created with POV-Ray

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