(file: README.1ST, by Klaus Lepschi)

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SETTING UP THE SUPERELLIPSOID THUMBNAIL-LIBRARY
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This archive contains the files for POVLABs Superellipsoid-
Thumbnail-Library. In detail these are the files ...


1) README.1ST
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THe file you are reading right now.


2) OBJ0000.POV ... OBJ0099.POV
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These are standard-POV-Ray files with the scenes, used for rendering
the superellipsoid-thumbnails.


3) MKELLIPS.BAT
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The batch-file to render the POV-files. The resulting TGA-images
will be converted to GIF-images using POVLABs <TGAVGIF.EXE>.


4) MK_ALCH.BAT
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The batch-file to render the POV-files. The resulting TGA-images
will be converted to GIF-images using IMAGE ALCHEMY. Use this batch-
file, if Image Alchemy is installed on your computer.

5) SUPERELL.PLB
The library-file for POVLAB.



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GENERATION AND INSTALLATION OF THE THUMBNAILS
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*  Unzip all files in this archive into a directory of your choice.

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IF YOU DON'T HAVE IMAGE ALCHEMY ...
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*  Run MKELLIPS.BAT with the following commandline ...

      mkellips <path to POV-Ray> <path to POVLAB>
   
   a possible commandline could be ...
   
      mkellips c:\povray3 c:\povlab
         
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IF YOU HAVE IMAGE ALCHEMY INSTALLED ...
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*  Run MK_ALCH.BAT with the following commandline ...

      mk_alch <path to POV-Ray> <path to POVLAB> <path to ImAlchemy>
   
   a possible commandline could be ...
   
      mkellips c:\povray3 c:\povlab c:\alchemy

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After the images are rendered, you will be prompted if you would
like the GIF-thumbnails to be moved into the correct directory.

Press the [Y]-key to move the images (the appropriate folders will
be created if it does not exist).

After that, all TGA-files can be removed too. You will again be
asked, if this should be done automatically.

Press the [Y]-key to remove the TGA-images.


IMPORTANT:
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If you would like to copy the thumbnails into the proper directory
by yourself, then this is the place, where you should put them in.

      C:\POVLAB\OBJECTS\SUPERELL
      
      (assuming that POVLAB resides in "C:\POVLAB")



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FINISHING THE THUMBNAIL-INSTALLATION
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After the procedures mentioned above, you have to copy/move the file
"SUPERELL.PLB" into the "OBJECTS"-folder of your POVLAB-directory.


(end of file: README.1ST)
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