POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : POV-Ray & Databases : Re: POV-Ray & Databases Server Time
2 Aug 2024 16:24:07 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-Ray & Databases  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 5 Nov 2004 18:05:47
Message: <MPG.1bf5b50c4117c388989c17@news.povray.org>
In article <418bbfba$1@news.povray.org>, jbe### [at] ifrancecom says...
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> Patrick Elliott wrote:
> | Except databases go beyond simple I/O. For instance, a smart system
> could
> | read in the contents of a .inc file to the database (or the
> equivalent),
> | which will only be used in an animation in say 50 frames out of
> 100, then
> | only read that back in from the DB 'when' it is needed, rather than
> | parsing the entire file each time. I suspect that is a bit harder to
> | manage currently, if it is even possible.
> 
> 	You mean, something like that?
> 
> #if ((clock > 0.25) && (clock < 0.75))
> ~  #include "foo.inc"
> #end
> 
Wasn't sure if you could or not. Still, there may be other cases..

-- 
void main () {

    call functional_code()
  else
    call crash_windows();
}


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