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30 Jun 2024 13:03:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Web plugin proposal  
From: inhahe
Date: 10 Feb 2005 06:37:24
Message: <420b4774$1@news.povray.org>
wouldn't it be too slow?  speaking of the second option.


"Klemen" <him### [at] zhwaunet> wrote in message
news:web.4114a0d69a4f5b7b4785f90d0@news.povray.org...
> I was just wondering about an application of POV-Ray. Could there be a
> plugin extension to a web browser that would support parsing a tag with
> some POV code in it on the client machine?
>
> For example, to have images rendered on the client machine after loading
the
> page? The user would then be able to resize the picture at will,
> rerendering with different parameters.
>
> The other is to use a POV extenstion for web servers - imagine having
> something like a PHP extension which you'd be able to feed with parameters
> and POV code and let it output an image you could then send to the client
> browser as a normal PNG/JPEG image.
>
> Is such an idea feasible or too narrow an application to use? I'm not a
C++
> programmer, nor am I familiar with writing extensions to open-source
> software, but humour me with some comments on the proposal.
>
> -Klemen
>
>


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