In article <3ecdbcc9$1@news.povray.org>,
 "JunYong Ji" <jun### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

> To do those things, I think I should understand source code of POV-Ray
> but I wonder if I can handel important and core source code of POV-Ray
> easily.

You are asking if it is possible for you to understand the core source 
code? You don't really give a clear idea of your qualifications and 
experience...to understand the source code, you will need to at least 
know the C and C++ programming languages, POV having been written in C 
and recently converted to C++. Also, POV is really big...it would be 
possible for one person to understand the entire core source code, but 
not without a lot of time and effort. To do so, you will need to have 
knowledge of various branches of mathematics, a lot of separate computer 
graphics algorithms, parsers, virtual machines, data structures, 
object-oriented design, etc, not to mention at least some knowledge of 
how to use the program. And it is not always clean and well-structured.

If you have a specific question about how something works or how to 
implement it, the povray.programming group is intended for exactly this 
kind of discussion.

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Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
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