I was just wondering about an application of POV-Ray. Could there be a
plugin extension to a web browser that would support parsing a tag with
some POV code in it on the client machine?

For example, to have images rendered on the client machine after loading the
page? The user would then be able to resize the picture at will,
rerendering with different parameters.

The other is to use a POV extenstion for web servers - imagine having
something like a PHP extension which you'd be able to feed with parameters
and POV code and let it output an image you could then send to the client
browser as a normal PNG/JPEG image.

Is such an idea feasible or too narrow an application to use? I'm not a C++
programmer, nor am I familiar with writing extensions to open-source
software, but humour me with some comments on the proposal.

-Klemen

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in news:web.4114a0d69a4f5b7b4785f90d0@news.povray.org Klemen wrote:

>[...] but humour me with some comments on the proposal.
> 

For a moment I thought you wanted POV-Ray to render the HTML ... ;)


Ingo

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> For a moment I thought you wanted POV-Ray to render the HTML ... ;)
>
> Ingo

Erm... hardly. ;) I guess that would be a *BIT* overkill.

But seriously, anyone have any ideas as why to or not to construct such a
plugin?

-Klemen

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wouldn't it be too slow?  speaking of the second option.


"Klemen" <him### [at] zhwaunet> wrote in message
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> I was just wondering about an application of POV-Ray. Could there be a
> plugin extension to a web browser that would support parsing a tag with
> some POV code in it on the client machine?
>
> For example, to have images rendered on the client machine after loading
the
> page? The user would then be able to resize the picture at will,
> rerendering with different parameters.
>
> The other is to use a POV extenstion for web servers - imagine having
> something like a PHP extension which you'd be able to feed with parameters
> and POV code and let it output an image you could then send to the client
> browser as a normal PNG/JPEG image.
>
> Is such an idea feasible or too narrow an application to use? I'm not a
C++
> programmer, nor am I familiar with writing extensions to open-source
> software, but humour me with some comments on the proposal.
>
> -Klemen
>
>

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