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18 May
2010
18 May
'10
11:35 a.m.
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