New version of my open source Render-3d PHP library!  Now it converts to POVRay

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New version of my open source Render-3d PHP library! Now it converts to POVRay mesh natively, so should be easier to get it working on your own 3d related website to help render STL files. Also somehow it is much faster now! :slight_smile:

This is the library used on http://libre3d.com to render STL files. We’re releasing the library open source to help push the industry forward.

http://tech.libre3d.com/2015/02/03/render-3d-library-updated-becomes-a-little-less-of-a-wrapper/
http://tech.libre3d.com/2015/02/03/render-3d-library-updated-becomes-a-little-less-of-a-wrapper

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After another round of replies back and forth between myself and Roland Smith (developer of the stl2pov python script), I realized there are further speed improvements to be made!

Namely, writing to a file “line by line” is probably the slowest way to do it, going to change that to write to the file in larger chunks. When I get some spare time to experiment with that we’ll see what kind of speed improvements it would actually net.