povray

Render multiple POV-Ray scenes on Windows

I have a whole bunch of POV-ray files from a molecular dynamics simulation with the general name "frameXX.pov" where "XX" is the number of the frame. I want to render them all but I have like 500 so I really don't wanna do it by hand. I'm sure there is a way to do this from the command line or a batch file...what would be the best way ...

POVray: How to reliably create nice merges of objects merely touching on the surface?

What I'm doing I have a scene which algorithmically draws a prism with a hexagonal cross-section and n layers of such prisms surrounding the center one, such that all the prisms together make a larger hexagon shape. Now, each row of prisms is displaced from the next by a multiple of sqrt(3)/2 (because the dimensions of one prism are <...

POVRAY for windows: using the command line to render several pov files

Hi All, I am trying to automate the rendering of several pov files so I made a simple script that runs all the pov (pvengine.exe...etc) in a for loop. However, this doesn't work since the GUI editor always comes up so that I have to manually close it down before the next one can start. By looking on this forum and google, there is appa...

Sample configuration to speed up POVRAY image creation

Hey all, We're using POV-Ray to generate some 80 images per run, which we stitch together to form two moving GIF files (two 360 degree views of a scene). We're looking for ways to speed-up this image creation (on a headless linux server) as much as possible, as they'll be displayed on a webpage directly following creation. Now I know ...