Mondfarilo Features

What's New?

• Lathe Editor
• Cone primitive debugged

• Select objects by dragging a rectangle
• More complete, consistent and robust editing windows
• Web site reorganization

7 May 1997

• Superellipsoids
• Revamped editing windows

• Initial Publication

Current Feature Set

• Creates POV-Ray finite solid primitives: Box, Sphere, Cone/Cylinder, Torus, Superellipsoid, Blob.

• Creates nestable groups of primitives and freely groups and ungroups existing objects.

• Cuts, copies and pastes primitives and deeply nested groups.

• Translates, uniformly scales, nonuniformly scales and rotates all objects, by clicking and dragging in top, front and side views.

• Performs Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) on groups, displaying a rough-and-ready wireframe preview.

• Positions the camera and focal point in a variety of ways, including by clicking and dragging in the perspective camera view.

• Draws fast wireframe previews, and smoothly animates them during mouse drags.

• Generates stand-alone POV-Ray scenes. (The applet version puts the scene in a text window for you to copy and paste by local means. Applets can't write files on your disk.)

Planned Enhancements

• Render the camera view with Phong shading and a Z buffer.

• Provide simple texture support: RGB solid color, ambient, diffuse, phong, reflect and transmit coefficients.

• Add point lights.

• Add some more primitives: lathe, prism, bicubic patch mesh, triangle mesh, plane, disk.

• READ POV FILES, or at least read the same subset of POV-Ray that it writes. Don't invent a new private file format; just read and write POV-Ray.

• Let the user change the size of the grid in the axis views, turn the grid on and off, turn snap-to-grid on and off.

• Let the user change the aspect ratio.

• What do YOU think I should do?