POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Povray & CSV files : Re: Povray & CSV files Server Time
30 Jul 2024 08:27:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Povray & CSV files  
From: Mike Williams
Date: 22 May 2009 01:29:38
Message: <dqrR8iB$WjFKFwKm@econym.demon.co.uk>
Wasn't it gregjohn who wrote:
>"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>> "gregjohn" <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
>> > Any tips on how to get the data into povray from a typical standard CSV?
>>
>> #read should be able to do the job, if the file is nice straightforward CSV.
>
>
>Really? Suppose it's a list like this, how could you actually get these data
>"into" povray?
>
>
>1 , -2 , -8.4715E-05 , 57983.2925
>2 , -1.98 , -8.5116E-05 , 56354.0494

As mentioned upthread, in order to be read by POVRay the data needs to 
be preprocessed to change it to

1 , -2 , -8.4715E-05 , 57983.2925 ,
2 , -1.98 , -8.5116E-05 , 56354.0494 ,

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure


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