Hi(gh)!

On 16.04.2013 08:56, Thomas de Groot wrote:

> The idea is certainly interesting but it represents a lot of work to
> index and build a relational database like that, if I remember correctly
> my past implications with such a project. However, nowadays many things
> can be automated though.

Most challenging would be to get permission from the 1300+ POVers who 
contributed to p.b.i since 1999 to copy their images into the 
database... this could be avoided if any POVer uploads his/her own 
images by himself, but then it probably would not be a database related 
exclusively to p.b.i anymore! But... why not?

Another difficult issue would be working out the keyword hierarchies... 
perhaps I should start with an experimental local database into which I 
enter my stored images file by file... the bigger it grows, the more 
elaborate the hierarchies become. At a certain stage of development I 
would present a mostly emptied (just the database structure contained 
the keyword hierarchies, but no other images and scripts than those of 
which I own the copyright, i. e. the images posted by me (some 350 
files)) version of the database for demonstration to the webmaster(s) of 
povray.org.

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

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