-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bill Gatliff wrote: > Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: >> On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:58:52 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: >> >> >>> As an older (code no longer in existence) example, perspective like this >>> is not hard to achieve: >>> >>> http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/gerbv_GL.png >>> >>> (That IIRC, is cairo-rendered onto a texture, then stretched onto a >>> quad). >>> >> IMHO, this is cheating. 3D objects would at least need ray tracing to >> look half way real. If there is an urge to push 3D output of pcb layouts, >> it would be wise not to reinvent the wheels. I'd suggest an export in a >> 3D format and delegate rendering to a third party application like the >> excellent blender. >> > > Cheating or not, all the examples he posted look _awesome_! :) I agree.
When will that code hit the stable release of PCB? I'm really looking forward. > > Let's say the objective of the 3D effects/output in PCB were to test > against a 3D model of the whole system--- not just to visualize the > (populated) PCB. Would Blender be the right output format then? Do you know Eagle3d? They generate a Povray input from Eagle. http://www.matwei.de/doku.php?id=en:eagle3d:eagle3d - - cl -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFKxjaTWo2QgtqY4K8RAqZEAJ9S7O0L9YcI3mbF0akmwJHVv+9CLQCgtAaw Rg8qN8nFrSGghrnpI5gHyOQ= =lTVM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user