How can I create a scene where an object (like a sphere) is repeated over
360 degrees in a circular pattern? I basically want to produce a scene with
multiple reflective spheres and several colored light sources, so that when
I produce an animation the camera rotates to reveal spheres that reflect
differing colors as the camera rotates.

Please e-mail me any useful source code.

Thanks

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In article <38b95804@news.povray.org>, "Paul" <ran### [at] freenetcouk> 
wrote:

> How can I create a scene where an object (like a sphere) is repeated 
> over 360 degrees in a circular pattern? I basically want to produce a 
> scene with multiple reflective spheres and several colored light 
> sources, so that when I produce an animation the camera rotates to 
> reveal spheres that reflect differing colors as the camera rotates.

You need to use a #while() loop to do this efficiently, it is documented 
in the manual which comes with POV-Ray. Try something like this:

#declare Cntr = 0;// the counter variable
#while(Cntr < 18)// Repeat everything between this and it's 
                 // matching #end while the variable Cntr is
                 // less than 18.
    sphere {< 5, 0, 0>, 1
        texture {...}
        rotate < 0, Cntr*360/18, 0>
              //rotate by an amount depending on Cntr
    }
    
    #declare Cntr = Cntr + 1;// Add 1 to the value of Cntr.
             // If this is not done, it will try to loop forever.
#end

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Chris Huff
e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/

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