GraphVizEngine

Object which provide support for the GraphViz render engine.

This is a full-fledged render engine, but unlike the RenderMan and Yafray engines, it doesn't produce a 3D rendering of your document; instead, it uses the GraphViz tools to produce a nice rendering of the document DAG. For those unfamiliar, the GraphViz tools are a set of command-line tools for visualizing graphs (that's graph in the formal mathematical sense of nodes and edges).

This is important for several reasons: 1) It's a test-bed where we can rapidly experiment with different approaches to visualizing the DAG. 2) It's a short-term stopgap to get you productive with the DAG right now. 3) It's a good teaching tool for generating diagrams for DAG-related documentation. 4) It's a neat demo of how a radically-different sort of "render engine" can easily be integrated into K-3D.

Properties

NameDescription
nameObject name [string]
render_engineRender Engine [string]

See also

RenderManEngine, YafRayEngine.

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