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NAME
synpic - synthetic picture system ray tracer
Copyright (c) 1984, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 Peter Miller.
All rights reserved.
The _s_y_n_p_i_c program is distributed under the terms of the GNU
General Public License. See the LICENSE section, below, for
more details.
DESCRIPTION
The _s_y_n_p_i_c program is a ray tracer. I started writing it in
1984, and have been tinkering with it ever since.
The ray tracer can handle a variety of quadric surfaces, and
a few planar objects, and circular tori. Reflection and
refraction are supported.
The description language is fully procedural, with a rich
set of geometric types to make descriptions simpler.
There is an translator from NFF provided.
BUILDING
The _B_U_I_L_D_I_N_G file included in this distribution provied full
instructions for building and installing the _s_y_n_p_i_c program.
You will need the _u_r_i package, by the same author, to be
able to build and use the _s_y_n_p_i_c program. The _u_r_i package
containes all the image file access functions.
EXAMPLES
For example images, the tests are a good place to start.
You could also grab Eric Haines' SPD and translate them,
there is a NFF translator included in this distribution.
LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.
The _s_y_n_p_i_c program is distributed in the hope that it will
be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
02139, USA.
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AUTHOR
Peter Miller UUCP uunet!munnari!bmr.gov.au!pmiller
/\/\* Internet pmiller@bmr.gov.au
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