From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/58900 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mojca Miklavec Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: POV-Ray Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 19:35:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274204112 28796 80.91.229.12 (18 May 2010 17:35:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 17:35:12 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue May 18 19:35:11 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OEQhC-0003fi-T2 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 May 2010 19:35:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B323C9AC7; Tue, 18 May 2010 19:35:09 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 8YdpOQ+xiT2e; Tue, 18 May 2010 19:35:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C86AC9A8A; Tue, 18 May 2010 19:35:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2666DC9A7C for ; Tue, 18 May 2010 19:35:04 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id E2R+wTC3tNdz for ; Tue, 18 May 2010 19:35:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-wy0-f169.google.com (mail-wy0-f169.google.com [74.125.82.169]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE716C9A41 for ; Tue, 18 May 2010 19:35:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by wyb33 with SMTP id 33so726666wyb.14 for ; Tue, 18 May 2010 10:35:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=voLN111xpn5hNUTGshhLslykZbiwDL+HuM3UI0Pq6wA=; b=nVkJCU4B0COyku9xF7qioUu0d/yW9Bt57ftRpnaTJ3EQ/G0+9rn99GWgiyeQBAFIPM iLuxJ8ifQhz1Vk7fS7V0yV9msdZ+GgDKoNRdn+2OTUlsTd9kIQnesgsxmVSmRd/szPa1 n3EdG4DHJocITl5RCIeusdYvTSr3FZGb9YWDA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=pGaK0wauawlA498e4pLyoPSOWnLr7MjpXfVse+vkuVGvnX4WC+94yv8AST9qQHGVrX RQHWKWeB5s7pZ5amghRxymsNI+NCeWm3GswI1bLMXrp+rDoQzzVk8lYc8t9MvtN7ixWw dpM4u3PHzwpyA1eYyOJHN+QRIwYsEKwS9Gulw= Original-Received: by 10.216.87.135 with SMTP id y7mr8805wee.10.1274204101383; Tue, 18 May 2010 10:35:01 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.216.78.208 with HTTP; Tue, 18 May 2010 10:35:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:58900 Archived-At: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 14:44, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: > Sure the file size is going to be blown > up by a margin but I think metapost can not beat POV-Ray in terms of power. > > Please advice. POV-Ray is for 3D raster images, while metapost is for 2D vector images. I often use POV-Ray to generate complex 3D surfaces and then overlay the image with metapost to add arrows, labels, ... Two two programs are hardly comparable. They are used for completely different needs. You need to tell what kind of images exactly you would want to have. Asymptote may lie somewhere between the two (less powerful than POV-Ray, but more 3D features than metapost). Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________