Basics

• The POVRay coordinate system
• Set up the camera
• Set up a light source
• Box
• Cone
• Sphere
• Cylinder

Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG)

• Constructive Solid Geometry
• Union/Difference/Intersection
• Coincident Surfaces

Makefile and opts.ini

• Show use of Makefile to automate scene generation
• Show options in ini file
  height, width
  output file type
  quality settings
  Edit frame numbers to allow "distributed" rendering
  

Materials

• ball_on_checker
  Demonstrate clouds, textures
• stones
  Show contents of the stones and textures library
  
• textures
  Same here.
• image maps
  Demonstrate mapping an image to a sphere
• Sample images:
  Stone textures
  Skies and checker textures
  Assorted textures
  Image maps
  

Advanced

• Create Meshes
• Isosurfaces
• Generating text
• Lighting
• Focal Blur

Animation

• Animation Tutorial
• Stonehenge example
• Ceiling Fan
• Edit the ini file to change start and end frames.
• Create MPEGs and GIF Animations in Gimp
• Sample images:
  trilith0001.png
  trilith0501.png
  ceiling_fan0500.png
  
• Sample animation:
  Contrived scene with magical, floating sphere.
  Same scene, but vary the camera height.
  Animated fan gif
  Note: You may need to save the links to your local drive if your browser does not automatically display the image.

External Programs

• Visual Molecular Dynamics
• Molecule generated in VMD

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