POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : How to know how POV-Ray works : Re: How to know how POV-Ray works Server Time
21 May 2024 03:14:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: How to know how POV-Ray works  
From: clipka
Date: 6 Jul 2017 09:35:40
Message: <595e3cac$1@news.povray.org>
Am 06.07.2017 um 15:22 schrieb qingshu:
> "qingshu" <220### [at] seueducn> wrote:
>> Hello everyone:
>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks!
> 
> Thank you all for help!
> I find that it is more easily to understand version 3.6. Version 3.6 has simple
> architecture. The file rendctrl.cpp describe the workflow.

That's not really a surprise: 3.7 adds support for multithreading, and
also contains code in preparation of future support for distributed
rendering. These changes added a lot of complexity.


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