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What is gds2pov?

GDS2POV is a program to take a GDS2 layout file and output a POV-Ray scene description file of the GDS2 data. This allows the creation of attractive 3D pictures of a layout.

Look at an example (click to enlarge):

2D Example 3D Example

POV-Ray is a completely free, cross platform ray tracer. It can be obtained from http://www.povray.org/

Also included are the incomplete programs gdsoglviewer and gds2svg.

News (2008/09/16)

Work in progress

I am currently working on a new version of gds2pov. It's a big tidy up of the code (so far I've removed almost 1000 lines of code, or about 10% of the total, with no change in functionality) and it's also going to be a whole lot easier to use. Don't hold your breath though :)

New release 20080229

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New release 20070813

Fedora Packages (2007/08/09)

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Source Code

gds2pov is available to download as source code. It should compile on just about anything, although there may be problems with OpenGL support on platforms other than Windows and Linux.

Old versions are still available, should you want them for any reason.

Binaries

Licence

This code is licensed under the GNU GPL v2.

More Examples

Please forgive - these images have been resized and saved as jpg to save on file size. It hasn't done them much good!

Look Down Full Example Complex Example

Links

Contact

gds2pov was written by Roger Light. Questions, bug reports, suggestions or requests for new features (especially if they concern the incomplete support for the GDS2 format) are very welcome.

I am also very interested in seeing any pretty pictures made with gds2pov!

Contact me on roger_atchoo_org. Replace the _ with @ and . respectively.

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These changes thanks to Arun Persaud:

These changes suggested by Frederic Pecourt:

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