On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:17:16AM -0700, David Artman wrote: >Transparency would be the main thing, to me, then. We should be able to >set these images onto white, black, etc backgrounds (ex: table cell >shading, for a chessboard) and not see anything but the mids. That's certainly doable in the relevant file formats; it's been a few years since I used PoVray but I'd be surprised if it couldn't manage it.. >And I bet the write POVray code + wait for render time is orders of >magnitude more time and effort than my press O (Eyedropper) + click the >palette + press Shift+B (Paint Bucket tool) + click at most four times >to fill. For you maybe. I'd get bored with repetitive actions in the first five minutes and look for something else to do... such as coding. :-) >Hmmm... maybe a script could be written which would loop through colors >and orientations, outputting read-to-run POVray code, so one could just >copy & paste the code into POVray. That would certainly be consistent >and avoid coding errors (and with at least 275 to make, it would be >worth the script coding time). Autogen code would certainly be the way to go. Roger (not volunteering, sorry, too many things on plate right now)