Here is a bit of documentation for Yafray. http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/x12253.html
I have never actually used it. My only experience with raytracing is Povray which is great but has the wrong license (although that is supposed to change in v4.0) Michel On May 29, 5:08 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/29/07, Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There is also Yafray. It is used as one of the rendering engines by > > blender and > > seems to be very good. Look here > > It looks great, and has a great license. I made a SAGE > package for it too. If you do > ./sage -i yafray-0.0.9 > it should build yafray for you (I made an experimental package). > > But it's a strange system to understand -- > there doesn't seem to be much in the way > of documentation, and doing something as simple as drawing a sphere > seems really hard. (??) It uses xml and is used as a raytracing plugin > for blender. It's actively developed. > > Anyway, I'm looking for a GPL-compatibly licensed replacement for > Tachyon3d, whose license is -- unfortunately -- not GPL compatible. > > -- > > Tom remarked: "It looks very pretty. Their documentation sucks. To > figure out their scene description language, it would appear that we'd > have to reverse-engineer it from Blender output." > > > > > > >http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/gallery/images/ > > > and scroll down a bit to "External renderers". > > > I *think* Yafray only has meshes so sage would have to create > > the geometric objects like spheres etc..., presumably not a big deal. > > For function plotting meshes are ideal. > > > Michel > > > On May 29, 12:33 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 5/28/07, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm just glad those are the only two sticky issues. I think we're > > > > fine with jsmath, as you said it's not linked--just distributed and > > > > run (separately) on the user's browser. We don't have to place > > > > license restrictions on the browser... > > > > Yep, that should be fine. > > > > > Hopefully the author of Tachyon gets back to us--I would be surprised > > > > if he didn't free it up. > > > > The problem is that he's never responded to any > > > email I've ever sent him. I suggest we wait a few days, > > > and if he doesn't response then: > > > (1) people on sage-devel who really like Tachyon could > > > write their own emails to him asking in their own words > > > that he consider removing the obnoxious licensing clause, > > > and , > > > (2) we try even hard to figure out if distributing Tachyon with > > > SAGE is actually a copyright violation. It's not completely > > > 100% crystal clear to me, since SAGE does no C library linking > > > with Tachyon. And fortunately the Tachyon license is the BSD > > > license (not something like the lame gnuplot license), so > > > it's not restrictive. That said, we very well might want to do some > > > C library linking with Tachyon in the future, and it would be very > > > bad to not have this option. > > > > -- > > > William Stein > > > Associate Professor of Mathematics > > > University of Washingtonhttp://www.williamstein.org > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washingtonhttp://www.williamstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
