POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Impossible stl file conversion! : Re: Impossible stl file conversion! Server Time
7 Oct 2025 04:56:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Impossible stl file conversion!  
From: yesbird
Date: 20 Sep 2025 14:07:30
Message: <68ceed62$1@news.povray.org>
On 20/09/2025 20:38, kurtz le pirate wrote:
> 
> Just a joke : how many people will use your solution and how many 
> conversions will they generate ?
> 

Exactly, this is the reason for my doubts about writing it.

> 
> Three.js, JavaScript ... yet another new language to learn that isn't 
> designed for creating computer-generated images and which is not that 
> easy to learn.

I guess that JavaScript is one of the easiest languages to learn, at
least much more easy than Perl, for example. Yes, image generation
features are not a part of it, but they are containing in libraries.

At the same time WebGL (and now WebGPU) approach(s) gives a lot of
advantages: easy access to applications with browsers, interactivity,
using the user's GPU for rendering ... This is the reason why I switched
to Three.js from POV-Ray while still loving it.

> 
> ... and, for *me*, javascript is disable in my browser because  here is 
> an increasing number of ways for JavaScript to be used maliciously. 
> JavaScript based attacks such as Cross Site Scripting and Click Jacking 
> rely on JavaScript and can cause the security to be compromised. There 
> are an increasing number of security minded people who do not just let 
> JavaScript run on every single page they visit to decrease the chances 
> of these attacks.
> 
> I might be paranoid, but it is only my position.
> 

No, I don't think so, but at modern state of internet huge part of the
sites can't function without JS - can't stop the progress ).

-- 
YB


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