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The origin of this software was found in the desire of the author to render 3D CAD models using the POV-ray raytracer. Next to geometric primitives, POV-ray can also use meshes. One obvious way to generate those from CAD software is to use ...
In addition to stl2pov, I've now written a program that writes a shaded projection of the STL file (along the z-axis) as a PostScript file. It supports arbitrary rotations of the STL file around x-, y- or z-axis and automatically centers the object in the view, so you can ...
On 2011-04-04 I re-wrote my parser for STL files in Python. The original C parser was 411 lines (excluding comments and blank lines). The new parser in Python is 134 lines. This is also without comments. It took me about two hours to write from scratch. But that includes debugging ...
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