pan wrote:
>"pavium" <joh### [at] engineercom> wrote in message
>news:web.3de4408425f1d1ba4545d010[at]news.povray.org...
>
>> workstation.
>>
>> (I don't know if I'd want PHP scripts with execution time measured in
>days,
>> however)
>>
>
>As it turns out the freeBSD maintainer for the povray package is working
>on new Makefile patches right now. The change to 3.50c changes what
>needs to be patched.
>
>PHP - scripts - not sure what you mean by 'time measurd in days' ?
>A php script needs only to pass a flag that signals the execution
>of a script by povray - the script does that and it's done. Other,
>separate, scripts collect, collate and insert data into dbs and write
>the .pov files.
>The renderings I'm thinking of would make simple graphics mostly using
>the 3d modelling space that is not available in almost all other
>graphics engines. It's either use pov or write endless graphics
>primitives in php classes that call on gd.
>python and ruby are overkill
>gnuplot, various perl routines, etc. are all 2d and wrap graphs in
>axes and scales that are not very manipulable.
>c/c++ is too much like reinventing the eight blind men who
>accosted the elephant ... I just want to flexibly graph some 3d data.
>
Of course you'd do it that way -- it was more of a rueful comment on
the speed of my computer.

Pavium

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