OOOhh, this made me think of something, actually..

    What is povray itself could have perl *INSIDE* it..  Aka:

perl_code {
  for($i = 0;$i < 10;$i++)
  {
    $dist = $i * 5;
    $out = "box { <$i, 0, 0> } box { <-$i, 0, 0> } spere { <0, 0, -$i) >
$i}";
  }
}

    I mean, just a rough psuedo code idea..

"Rocco Rutte" <pdm### [at] gmxnet> wrote in message
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> before asking the question, let me first describe what i'm planing to do:
> i'd like to render a movie. using povray's built-in animation function is
> to complicated. so i use perl to write the povray files according to my
> "storyboard". because rendering the animation at once (i plan about half
an
> hour or so) would take to long i'd like to split it. after each session
i'd
> like to compress the .tga's in an mpeg-stream. the mpeg-streams are to be
> merged later. so is there any tool available for the unix platform (linux
> would be okay, too) i could use to compress a number of .tga's to one
.mpeg?

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