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30-Aug-2016

• POV-Ray Insert Menu Add-on:
•  Update of my Insert Menu Add-on for POV-Ray.
  See here for a preview and download Insert Menu Add-on.
  New section "New objects in shapes_lo2.inc".
• New POV-Ray shapes "Rounded Boxes".

09-July-2016

•3D-Animations Gallery:
•  Animations now also as animated gifs:
  4 in Gallery Section Op-Art + Psycodelics.
  4 in Gallery Section Platonic Animations.
•POV-Ray Animation Tutorial:
•  1 new example + how to make animated gifs: See here Example 2

18-Aug-2015

•3D-Animations Gallery:
•  1 new animation: Horsehead Pump
  in the 3D-Animation Gallery, Section Engineering of Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

30-Dec-2014

•Raytracing Gallery - POV-Ray Gallery:
•  1 new part with 6 images: Winter (2)
  in the Raytracing Gallery of Andrea Lohmueller.

24-Dec-2014

•POV-Ray Insert Menu Add-on:
•  Update of my Insert Menu Add-on for POV-Ray.
  See here for a preview and download Insert Menu Add-on.
  New section "Isosurfaces helix spirals".
  3 new items at "Isosurfaces by function.inc".
  1 new shape at "shapes_lo2"
•New POV-Ray shape "Fender_1".

11-Dec-2014

•Raytracing Gallery - POV-Ray Gallery:
•  1 new part with 10 images: Sternwheeler Steamboats
  in the Raytracing Gallery of Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

08-Oct-2014

•POV-Ray Include Files:
•  Update of shapes3.inc.

10-Sept-2014

•POV-Ray Tutorials:
•  1 new example in the tutorial Scaling Object Media.

14-Aug-2014

•Model Railroading, Railway Modelling:
•  New images of steam locomotives Trevithick's Locomotives.
•  New images of Diesel locomotives ALCO FA-1 and FB-1, ALCO PA-1 and PB-1,
  in my pages about Model Railroading / Railway Modelling.

08-May-2014

•POV-Ray Tutorials:
•  Completely revised Geometric Objects in POV-Ray.
  See here for Downloads.

01-May-2014

•POV-Ray Tutorials:
•  New examples in the tutorial About Loops with POV-Ray.
•  2 new objects in my collection of Ready-made Objects for POV-Ray,
•  and updated list of objects in Geometric Objects in POV-Ray.
  See here for Downloads.

22-April-2014

•Botanical Gallery:
•  29 new images in: Apocynaceae, subfamily Asclepiadoideae
  in our Botanical Photo Gallery - Flowers and Greens.

31-March-2014

•Botanical Gallery:
•  Over 140 new images in: Lamiaceae   in our Botanical Photo Gallery - Flowers and Greens.

25-March-2014

•Botanical Gallery:
•  67 new images in: Iridaceae Crocosmia, Crocus, Gladiolus, Iris, Ixia,
  and 7 images in Berberidaceae, Berberis, Podophyllum ,
  and 26 images in Sansevieria,   in our Botanical Photo Gallery - Flowers and Greens.

08-Feb-2014

•POV-Ray Animation Tutorial:
•  Problems with changed default file type and DTA: 3D Animation with POV-Ray (POV-Ray 3.7)
•  Corrected macro Plane_NoP() in analytical_g.inc   See Downloads.

16-Jan-2014

•POV-Ray Insert Menu Add-on:
•  Corrected some typos in Insert Menu Add-on (POV-Ray 3.7) + HTML for POV-Ray 3.7.0.,
•  Corrected typos in files in shapes_lo2.zip,
•  Corrected macro Plane_Nor() in analytical_g.inc   See Downloads.

04-Jan-2014

•POV-Ray Insert Menu Add-on:
•  Corrected some typos in Insert Menu Add-on (POV-Ray 3.7) + HTML for POV-Ray 3.7.0.,
•  Corrected typos in files in shapes_lo2.zip,
   added missing include file to pov_objects1.zip,
   typo corrected in the templates 'Ready_made_Objects_37* resp. 01_Objects_lo_HTML.
  See Downloads.
•POV-Ray Tutorials:
•  Update of Basic POV-Ray Tutorial.
•  Update of the tutorial About Loops with POV-Ray.

22-Dec-2013

•POV-Ray Include Files:
•  Update of the POV-Ray include file shapes3.inc
   (Corrected error: in "Round_Pyramid_AB_in" was a wrong rotation).

21-Dec-2013

•POV-Ray Raytracing Gallery:
•  12 new images: Sommer Houses (2)
   in the Raytracing Gallery by Andrea Lohmueller
•  13 new images: Trevithick's Locomotive
  in the Raytracing Gallery Realism by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.
•  5 new animations: Trevithick's Locomotive animated
   in the 3D Animation Gallery by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

04-Dec-2013

•POV-Ray Raytracing Gallery:
•  21 new images: Isopatterns 3 and Isopatterns 4
  in the Raytracing Gallery by Andrea Lohmueller
•  8 new images: Fractal Patterns
  in the Raytracing Gallery Abstract by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.
•POV-Ray Insert Menu Add-on:
•  Update of my Insert Menu Add-on (POV-Ray 3.7) + HTML version to POV-Ray 3.7.0.,
  now with Fractal Patterns for pigments, normals and textures.

29-Nov-2013

•POV-Ray Raytracing Gallery:
  21 new images: Baja Planetoidia and Green Planets
  in the Raytracing Gallery Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

24-Nov-2013

•3D Animations Gallery with POV-Ray:
  5 new animations in Green Planets and
  3 new animations in Sine 3D
•POV-Ray Tutorials:
  Update Tutorial: Realistic Skies with POV-Ray
  in the POV-Ray Tutorials by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

20-Nov-2013

•POV-Ray Raytracing Gallery:
  21 new images: Isopatterns 1 and Isopatterns 2
  in the Raytracing Gallery Andrea Lohmueller

19-Nov-2013

•Ready-made POV-Ray Objects:
  Added new objects Wheels
  with the according Insert Menu Add-on templates.
  in the Ready-made Objects for POV-Ray by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

14-Nov-2013

•POV-Ray Insert Menu Add-on:
  Update of my Insert Menu Add-on (POV-Ray 3.7) + HTML version to POV-Ray 3.7.0.,
  now with additional transformations.
•POV-Ray Tutorials:
  Update Tutorial: Transformations with POV-Ray
  in the POV-Ray Tutorials by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

08-Nov-2013

•POV-Ray Insert Menu Add-on:
  Update of my Insert Menu Add-on (POV-Ray 3.7) + HTML version to POV-Ray 3.7.0.
•POV-Ray Tutorials:
  New Tutorial: Plants with POV-Ray (POV-Trees and Arbaro-Trees)
•Ready-made POV-Ray Objects:
  New ready-made objects: Plants + Trees
  in the POV-Ray Tutorials by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

15-Sept-2013

•POV-Ray Raytracing Gallery:
  13 new images: Trees and Water Plants
  in the Raytracing Gallery Andrea Lohmueller

09-Aug-2013

•POV-Ray Insert Menu Add-on:
  New templates added to my Insert Menu Add-on (POV-Ray 3.7/3.6) + HTML version.
•POV-Ray Tutorials:
  New POV-Ray camera: Architectural Perspective Camera
  New POV-Ray example: Cable Harness
  New ready-made objects: Business Buildings
  in the POV-Ray Tutorials by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

21-July-2013

•POV-Ray Raytracing Gallery:
  37 new images: La Grande Arche, b/w, USAFA Cadet Chapel and b/w
  in the Raytracing Gallery by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

04-July-2013

•POV-Ray Raytracing Gallery:
  21 new images: Palazzo rotondo, Palazzo italiana 1 and Palazzo italiana 2
  in the Raytracing Gallery by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

25-June-2013

•POV-Ray Raytracing Gallery:
  7 new images: Summer Houses
  in the Raytracing Gallery Andrea Lohmueller
•POV-Ray Animation Gallery:
  Added a new part Geometry
  in the 3D-Animations Gallery by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.
•POV-Ray Tutorials:
  Added a new part Truncated Icosahedron (buckyball)
  in the POV-Ray Tutorials - Geometry for Raytracers by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

02-June-2013

•Botanical Gallery:
  About 350 new image in Euphorbiaceae.   in the Botanical Photo Gallery by Andrea & Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

23-May-2013

•POV-Ray Insert Menu Add-on:
  Some link errors eliminated in the HTML version of my Insert Menu Add-on (POV-Ray 3.7/3.6)
  in the POV-Ray Tutorials by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

19-May-2013

•POV-Ray Tutorials:
  Updated my 'Rail Track System' for POV-Ray
  and corrected the file "shapes_lo.inc"
  for working with may new "shapes3.inc".
•Botanical Gallery:
  New images of about 25 new genera in Aizoaceae   in the Botanical Photo Gallery by Andrea & Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

12-May-2013

•Botanical Gallery:
  About 400 new image in Moraceae (Brosimum, Broussonetia, Ficus, Morus),
Leguminosae - subfamily Caesalpinioideae (Afzelia, Senna, Caesalpinia, Parkinsonia),
Myristicaceae, (Myristica), Primulaceae - subfamily Myrsinoideae, (Ardisia),
Canellaceae, (Canella), Acanthaceae, (Chamaeranthemum),
Acoraceae, (Acorus),
Araceae, (Aglaonema, Amorphophallus, Arisaema, Caladium, Calla, Cryptocoryne, Dracunculus, Epipremnum, Lasia, Lysichiton, Pinellia, Pothos, Scindapsus, Spathiphyllum, Typhonium (syn Sauromatum), Typhonodorum, Xanthosoma, Zantedeschia)
  in the Botanical Photo Gallery by Andrea & Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

10-April-2013

•POV-Ray Insert Menu Add-on:
  New updated Insert Menu Add-on (POV-Ray 3.7/3.6) and
  new include file shapes3.inc with more and better shapes,   replaces the former 'shapes_lo.inc' !
•POV-Ray Tutorials:
  Expanded part Random with POV-Ray
  in the POV-Ray Tutorials by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

23-March-2013

•POV-Ray Tutorials:
  Added a new part Object Pattern by using textures
  in the POV-Ray Tutorials by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

10-March-2013

•POV-Ray Animation Gallery:
  Added a new part The Fourth Dimension
  in the 3D-Animations Gallery by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

10-Feb-2013

•Raytracing Gallery:
  Added 2 new parts Algebraic Surfaces (1) and Algebraic Surfaces (1)
  in the Raytracing Gallery by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.
•POV-Ray Animation Gallery:
  Added a new part Algebraic Surfaces
  in the 3D-Animations Gallery by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

30-Jan-2013

•POV-Ray Tutorials:
  Added a new part Stereo Images and Stereo Animations with POV-Ray
  in the POV-Ray Tutorials by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.
•Raytracing Gallery:
  Added a new part Stereo Images
  in the Raytracing Gallery by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.
•POV-Ray Animation Gallery:
  Added a new part Stereo Animations

12-Jan-2013

•POV-Ray Tutorials:
  Added a new part Straight Moving Camera
  in the POV-Ray 3D Animation Tutorial by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

08-Jan-2013

•POV-Ray Raytracing Gallery:
  8 new images: Summer Residence
  in the Raytracing Gallery Andrea Lohmueller

02-Jan-2013

•POV-Ray Tutorials:
  Added new parts about Object Pattern 1, Object Pattern 2,
 pigment_pattern 1, pigment_pattern 2, image_pattern, image_map + gamma,
 transparency mapping 1, transparency mapping 2,  transparency mapping 3
  in my tutorial about Design of Surfaces by 'texture'.
•POV-Ray Ready-made Objects:
  Added 4 new models of simple Trucks and a new shape Round_N_Tube_Polygon.
•POV-Ray Insert Menu Add-On:
  Updated my Insert Menu Add-On by these new objects.

06-Dec-2012

•POV-Ray Raytracing Gallery:
  8 new images of the: American electric locomotive GE Alco EP-2 'bipolar'
  of the Milwaukee Road in the Raytracing Gallery Friedrich A. Lohmueller.
•POV-Ray Tutorials:
  Revised the Insert Menu Add-on for POV-Ray 3.6.2 for Windows.
•Model Railroading / Railway Modelling :
  Added some sideviews of the Electric Locomotives GE ALCO EF-1 and GE ALCO EP-2.

22-Nov-2012

•POV-Ray Raytracing Gallery:
  9 new images of the: American boxcab electric locomotive GE Alco EF-3, EF-5 of the Milwaukee Road
  in the Raytracing Gallery Friedrich A. Lohmueller

15-Nov-2012

•POV-Ray Raytracing Gallery:
  8 new images of the: American boxcab electric locomotive GE Alco EF-1 of the Milwaukee Road
  in the Raytracing Gallery Friedrich A. Lohmueller

23-Sept-2012

•POV-Ray Raytracing Gallery:
  7 new images: At the Beach
  in the Raytracing Gallery Andrea Lohmueller
•POV-Ray 3D Animation Tutorial:
  A new part Speed Up and Slow Down - part 2
  in the POV-Ray 3D Animation Tutorial by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

20-Sept-2012

•POV-Ray Read-made Objects:
  added a new macro objekt for a twisted box in Twisted_Box_X,
  in Ready-made Objects for POV-Ray by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.
  Also updated and reviewed the according collection of "shapes_lo2.zip"
  and the according Insert Menu Add-on (version 3.6/3.7 and html).

24-Aug-2012

•POV-Ray 3D Animation Tutorial:
  2 new parts Rocking Chair and Coupling Rods
  in the POV-Ray 3D Animation Tutorial by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.
•POV-Ray Read-made Objects:
  a rocking chair ready for animation in Furniture,
  1 new railway wheels type and conjunction rods in Wheelsets for Railway/Railroad,
  in Ready-made Objects for POV-Ray by Friedrich A. Lohmueller.
•3D Animations Gallery:
  1 new big animation: Sundowner Rock, another new is here: Track_1_demo.

16-Aug-2012

•POV-Ray Include files:
  Update of my POV-Ray include file shapes_lo.inc for POV-Ray version 3.6/3.7
  Also improved behavior of segment items with transparent materials.
•POV-Ray Read-made Objects:
  6 new shapes made by cylinders and torii in my collection POV-Ray Objects - Geometry,
  the file "shapes_lo2.zip" is now expanded by the according include files.
•POV-Ray Insert Menu Add-on:
  Expansion of my Insert Menu Add-on for POV-Ray by the shapes from above,
  download available for POV-Ray: "Basic_templates_37.zip"
  and also as version HTML: "00_Basic_Templates.zip".

15-Aug-2012

•Cactus Photo Gallery:
  New images: 1 of Arthrocereus, 7 of Peniocereus, 1 of Eulychnia
  in the Photo Gallery 3 of Cacti
  1 of Tacinga, 3 of Pereskiopsis,
  in the Photo Gallery 1 of Cacti by Andrea and Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

31-July-2012

09-July-2012

05-July-2012

30-June-2012

26-June-2012

08-May-2012

26-April-2012

20-April-2012

•Cactus Photo Gallery:
  66 new images of Gymnocalycium
  in the Photo Gallery of Cacti by Andrea and Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

20-Jan-2012

•Botanical Photo Gallery:
  over 180 new images of Pteridophyta (Ferns),   in the Botanical Photo Gallery by Andrea and Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

10-Jan-2012

•Botanical Photo Gallery:
  over 25 new images of Bignoniaceae,   5 in Limnanthes.   2 in Moringa.
  4 in Meliaceae Genus Swietenia   and 3 in Monimiaceae Genus Peumus
  in the Botanical Photo Gallery by Andrea and Friedrich A. Lohmueller.

03-Jan-2012

•Botanical Photo Gallery - Cacti:
  over 100 new images of Rhipsalis
  in the Cactus Photo Gallery by Andrea and Friedrich A. Lohmueller.