Am 05.07.2017 um 17:08 schrieb qingshu:
> I have read the online Docs about Version 3.7 (current). But there is little
> about how the source code organized and how POV-Ray works. So is there any help
> to understand the workflow of the POV-Ray and the function of each code file. I
> want to use part of source code to simulation the moving camera.

Currently there exists no complete systematic documentation of POV-Ray's
source code.

Where documentation is available, it is virtually entirely located in
the source code itself in the form of comments; for older portions of
the code the comments tends to be informal, while the documentation of
newer portions usually takes on the form of Doxygen-style comments.

Recently, some pieces of more general documentation have been added;
these reside in the `source-doc` folder, and take on the form of
Doxygen-style Markdown files.

The `tools/doxygen` folder contains scripts and configuration files to
compile all the Doxygen-style documentation (both comments and Markdown
files) into a developer's manual in both HTML and PDF format; with a few
changes to the scripts and config files, other formats supported by
Doxygen could also be generated.

We may at some time in the future start publishing the Doxygen output as
an official developer's manual, to accompany the source code and
installer packages on GitHub, but have never done so yet; so generating
your own copy is currently the only way to obtain such a documentation.

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