I'm doing a similar thing with the R statistics programming
environment. The R code writes an include file with the
statistics that I want rendered, then at the end it calls
(executes) pov SDL that generates a pretty graph.

Here is what I use in R:

(beware if this wraps)
system('C:\\progra~1\\pov-ra~1.5\\bin\\pvengine.exe C:\\Rpovray.ini
C:\\Rpovray.pov')

The location is standard for a Windows installation.
The double "\\" is because R uses "\" as a control character.

Harolddd


"andrel" <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
news:40C### [at] hotmailcom...
> If you have found your pvengine.exe you can wrap the
> pov call in a script file, like the one below.
> (I think I am not allowed to use an attachment here,
> so I split a couple of the lines to fit in a
> reasonable width).
>
> You can call this function as:
> povray(filename)
> or with name-value pairs
> povray(filename,'Width',320,'Height',240,'Options','+V')
>
> you can use any number of name-value pairs. I have defined
> only three, but you can easily add your own.
>
> Note: this assumes that you have set your inifile in povray
> and that you have selected
> 'Render/On Completion .../Exit POV-Ray for Windows'
> from the menu.
> There must be a way to specify the inifile you want to use
> and that you want to exit after completion from the command
> line, but I can not find how.
>
> Actually, your mail prompted me to investigate some more.
> After writing the above I found that I can specify the
> inifile. There are still a number of problems however,
> so I can not give a working version of the matlabscript
> that includes the inifile yet.
> - You have to specify the complete path for the inifile
> - The commandline parser does not parse quotes. You can
>   therefore not use a long filename that includes spaces
>   and put "" around them. In fact you have to use the
>   DOSfilename. In my case "c:\progra~1\pov-ra~1.5\" etc
> - it still complains that "never found section '' in file..."
>   This is where I give up :(
>
> Andrel
>
> nomail@nomail wrote:
> > I want to make a matlab program that creates a povray file for a face
mesh
> > and then renders it. To do this , I need to able to run povray from the
> > command line (not the GUI command line but DOS command line). The
> > documentation example says: POVRAY +Isimple.pov +V +W80 +H60, but when I
> > try this on dos, I get:
> > 'povray' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> > operable program or batch file.
> >
> > I searched for povray.exe, but it doesn't exist anywhere. I will
appreciate
> > if someone could tell me the way to do this.
> > thanks,
> > Ankur
> >
>
>
> ---
> function povray(povfile,varargin)
> oldwho = [];
> oldwho = who; % remember existing variables
> % enter modifiable arguments below
> Width=320;
> Height= 240;
> Options =[];
> % end of modifiable arguments
> ModVars   =   setdiff(who,oldwho);
> clear oldwho
> for k  = 1 :2: length(varargin)
>     if ~isempty(strmatch(varargin{k},ModVars,'exact'))
>        eval(sprintf('%s=varargin{k+1};',varargin{k}));
>     else
>        disp(sprintf('valid variables for %s:',mfilename));
>        disp(ModVars)
>        error(sprintf('Illegal argument :%s for %s.',...
>           varargin{k},mfilename));
>     end
> end
>
> eval(sprintf(['!"c:\\program files\\'...
>     'pov-ray for windows v3.5\\bin\\pvengine.exe"'...
> ' +W%d +H%d +I%s %s'],...
> Width,Height,povfile,Options));
>

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