In article <s9fv80lihsserosev6uibg0jg6ps2gj89a@4ax.com>,
 ABX <abx### [at] abxartpl> wrote:

> > That's true. For instance being able to call trace() or inside() is
> > pretty handy sometimes. I don't see any easy way of doing the same
> > with a C++ frontend (at least not without a lot of work).
> 
> Something like below (not perfect at all) workaround comes to my mind:

Sorry, but...ew. Set up a scene, write the file to disk, and run a 
POV-Ray render just to find out whether a single point is inside an 
object?

A better option would be to implement the intersection and insideness 
tests in C++. Of course, this practically entails writing a raytracer 
instead of a simple interface, which is a little more work...or you 
could write your code as an addition to POV-Ray.

-- 
Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
http://home.earthlink.net/~cjameshuff/
POV-Ray TAG: <chr### [at] tagpovrayorg>
http://tag.povray.org/

Post a reply to this message