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Realistic images of 3D objects鈥攖hat can be viewed from any angle, and in a variety of lighting conditions鈥攁re something of great value聽to聽artists, designers, architects, scientists, and many others. The problem is that they often聽lack the equipment,聽skill, or both,聽to produce them. Enter聽POV-Ray,聽open source 3D image rendering software. A few winters ago, while hiding from the weather, I decided鈥攏ot for the first time鈥攖o learn about producing 3D images. Although I doodle聽and took art classes in high school, my drawings are not anything special, and my previous attempts to draw with a mouse or trackball聽have been disastrous. The only open聽source software that I had heard of that could produce fantastic 3D work was聽Blender, but聽I thought I would need a steadier hand than I possessed and a Wacom tablet. So, what could I try instead? I had written code in a variety of programming languages to produce circles, pie charts, sine waves, and the like. So, with that in mind, and a little experience producing 2D shapes by writing raw SVG, I looked for open source software that would allow me to describe 3D shapes with a keyboard rather than draw them with a mouse. Getting started with POV-RayA raytracer聽is a program that creates 3D images by mathematically predicting where rays of light will strike an object, where they will either be reflected or absorbed.聽POV-Ray (Persistence of Vision Raytracer) generates images from a text-based scene description. And, looking at the聽POV-Ray Hall of Fame聽reveals the amazing photo-realism and surrealism that the program is capable of producing. Additionally, POV-Ray can鈥攚ith a little help鈥攂ecome a data visualization tool in the same way that many spreadsheet programs and other applications are used to generate graphic representations of raw data (e.g. pie charts, bar graphs, etc.). Because聽POV-Ray images are generated from scripts, other applications could be used to gather raw data and format it into scripts that could then be used by POV-Ray to generate the final images. Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows binaries are available. After reading the聽POV-Ray tutorial聽that explains how to create聽basic shapes and聽join them together, I was able to produce a simple seven聽second animated video. Lights, camera, objectsIn order to achieve 3D realism, the viewer must be able to see light and shadow behave in a credible way. The tutorial begins聽by explaining how to position a "camera" to represent the viewer's point of view, a shape to be looked at, and lighting to simulate the reflections and shadows cast by the shape. The tutorial聽then describes the basic 3D shapes: sphere, cylinder, cone, box,聽and torus (i.e. doughnut). These shapes can be combined by overlapping them and taking the union (logical OR), intersection (logical AND), or difference (logical XOR). Using these techniques, one can, for example, create a "half-torus" by obscuring a torus with a box. Joining cylinders to each side of a half-torus, and adding another half-torus rotated 180掳, results in a chain link. Multiple links rotated 90掳 from each other, and properly offset can form a chain. The tutorial also talks about textures, but for a beginner such as myself, producing textures like "wood" and "sky" was rather complicated. Fortunately, POV-Ray provides macros for a number of pre-built popular textures. Here's how I聽created an object and an animation. Hello, SphereSave the following code as a file named聽HelloSphere.pov. // Annotated example from POV-Ray tutorial // http://www.povray.org/documentation/3.7.0/t2_2.html#t2_2_1_6 // // Generate PNG with: // // $ povray +IHelloSphere.pov // #include "colors.inc" // Include color name macros background { color Cyan } // Lights! // light_source { // X, Y, and Z coordinates of the light source color White } // Camera! // camera { location // X, Y and Z coordinates of the camera look_at // X, Y and Z coordinates of where the camera is aimed } // Object! // sphere { , 2 // X, Y, Z and radius of the sphere texture { pigment { color Yellow } } }Issuing the command聽povray +IHelloSphere.pov聽in your favorite shell generates聽HelloSphere.png聽shown below.
I didn't initially set out to animate my experiment, but in poking around on the POV-Ray wiki, I found two articles that indicated it wasn't particularly difficult:聽HowTo:Create animations聽and HowTo:Encode animations as Ogg Theora Video. To create animations, POV-Ray provides a "clock" that generates multiple frames and saves each one as a PNG file. For each frame, the animator can move the object, the camera or the lighting, or a combination of all three. Once the frame files have been created, they must be combined into a single movie file. Although there appear to be several applications that help produce video, the wiki article recommended two programs which may not be available for Windows or Mac OS X: png2yuv聽(supplied by the聽mjpegtools聽package) and聽ffmpeg2theora聽(supplied by the聽ffmpeg2theora聽package). Together these two bundle the individual stills and produce an Ogg聽video. The following code, added to the end of a POV-Ray script, reads a value from a clock聽and generates a frame for each clock tick, both rotating the camera around a scene and rotating an object based on the clock value. // Animate! camera { look_at location } #declare Angle = 0; #switch (clock) #range (0, 44) #declare Angle = clock; #break #range (45, 134) #declare Angle = 45 - (clock - 45); #break #range (135, 179) #declare Angle = (clock - 135) - 45; #break #end Rotate_Around_Trans(, )In order for the animation to work, a second file, (flying.ini) controls the clock: Input_File_Name=flying.pov Initial_Frame = 1 Final_Frame = 180 Initial_Clock = 0.0 Final_Clock = 179.0Using the flying.pov file,聽which describes the shapes and scene, and the flying.ini file, which describes the number of frames and clock rate, the following generates 180 PNG images, and stitches them together into an Ogg Vorbis video: # Generate the 180 PNG images povray +Iflying.pov flying.ini # Create a YUV video from the PNG images (stills) png2yuv -I p -f 25 -j flying%03d.png -b 1 > flying.yuv # Convert the YUV video to an Ogg Vorbis video ffmpeg2theora --optimize --videoquality 10 --videobitrate 16778 \ -o flying.ogv flying.yuv # Remove the temorary files generated above rm flying0*.png flying1*.png flying.yuv The code flying.pov: The code to produce the initial image by describing the shapes, textures, lighting, and camera movement. flying.ini: The code which provides the "clock" and "frame rate" for the animation. film.sh:聽A short Bash script that issues the commands to "compile" flying.pov and flying.ini into a series of PNG frames, and then combine those frames to produce a movie. The imageThe command聽povray +Iflying.pov聽produced聽flying.png:
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