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  Re: Isosurface object calling an external function/program???  
From: Mike Raiford
Date: 2 Nov 2004 10:51:19
Message: <4187acf7$1@news.povray.org>


> Hi,
> 
> I would like to use POV-Ray for scientific visualisation. The isosurface
> capability sounds very interesting for my problem. In my case however, the
> function I need to evaluate is a bit complicated (and involves sums of
> elements defined outside POV-Ray). Is it possible to call a function
> defined outside POV-Ray (in a shared lib) inside the isosurface object???
> Could anyone give me an exemple of how to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 


Not without patching POVRay... Unless the output of said library is 
"fixed" then you could technically write the data out to a flat file, 
and load it into POVRay with the file IO directives.

-- 
~Mike


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