Rick's Chainmaker for POVRay

Rick's Chain Maker is free tool for creating depth maps representing 3 dimensional frames of chain, in POVRAY: http://www.povray.org/download/ You can generate just about any chain frame shape you will ever need, at any resolution, by simply adjusting a few parameters.

The depth maps are ideal for use by my Easter Egg Maker http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:719877, Carvewright and Sears Compucarve CNC machines, and in reduced polygon 3D surface modeling.

Let's say you need to carve or model a 5”x7” picture frame made from chain. Just load this code into POVRAY then render the image. You can then use the included OpenSCAD script to generate an .stl file from the image, or use the image in your CNC program directly!

Unfortunately comcast stopped host webpages so, http://home.comcast.net/~chainmaker/ is gone. I'll try to find another place, but for now all the files are here.

Note, for use with the CarveWright software, render .png files by entering "Output_File_Type=N" on the POVRAY command line next to the resolution pick list, or by adding this to your presets .ini file. Also, for best results, use anti-aliasing (AA 0.3) or better when rendering.