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From: "Lars C. Hassing" <lch@CCI.DK>
Subject:      [L3P] Render any model using any part in POV
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Hello fellow listers,

I am happy and proud to announce my L3P program. Finally I have completed
my new web-site.

L3P is a neat little utility that will produce a ready-to-render POV-file
from any LDRAW model using any part. It is a spin-off from my L3 project.
L3P runs under DOS or in a DOS-box in Windows95/WindowsNT.

The basic idea of L3P is to take a DAT-file and generate a POV-file with
  1) all the triangles and quads of the model and its parts
  2) automatically calculated camera and light source positions
The only remaining thing for the user to do, is to start POV-Ray.

Visit my web-site to have more information and to see some very nice images.
   http://www.netby.net/Nord/Mandelvej/Hassing/l3p.html

Although the name "L3P" was not chosen to imitate Lutz's L2P, the two
programs are very much alike. In fact I think that they should merge.
L3P do produce good looking images which render relatively fast,
but the quality will never come close to that of the Lgeo parts.
If Lutz will allow me to use the Lgeo parts and supply some info about e.g.
the *.tab files, I think that I could "join forces" with little effort.

L3P is also my DAT-file-chekcer, see documentation in l3p.txt.

I hope you will use and enjoy L3P. Any comments are appreciated.

Lars C. Hassing
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