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  Re: [edit] *.pov file live in modeller ?  
From: Tim Attwood
Date: 14 Aug 2007 20:11:17
Message: <46c244a5$1@news.povray.org>
> How would you represent an arbitrary isosurface using several user 
> deffined functions? or even just one? How about a Julia fractal, with the 
> almost infinite variations it offers? Now, think about a scene containing 
> 1000's of CSG objects proceduraly generated and placed? And, if the 
> placement of the objects in that scene depended on the location, and 
> possibly the shape, of the previous ones?

Finite complex objects could be represented as their bounding-boxes, that
seems to be the way most GUI modelers deal with memory limitations anyways.

It would be handy to have a command line option to output a "parsed objects"
list. That might help make it easier to import from POV SDL.
*add to wish list*


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