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20 May 2024 21:38:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: How to know how POV-Ray works  
From: qingshu
Date: 6 Jul 2017 09:50:01
Message: <web.595e3f1be74a3dba89d30d60@news.povray.org>
clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 06.07.2017 um 15:22 schrieb qingshu:
> > "qingshu" <220### [at] seueducn> wrote:
> >> Hello everyone:
> >> I have read the online Docs about Version 3.7 (current). But there is little
> >> about how the source code organized and how POV-Ray works. So is there any help
> >> to understand the workflow of the POV-Ray and the function of each code file. I
> >> want to use part of source code to simulation the moving camera.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >
> > Thank you all for help!
> > I find that it is more easily to understand version 3.6. Version 3.6 has simple
> > architecture. The file rendctrl.cpp describe the workflow.
>
> That's not really a surprise: 3.7 adds support for multithreading, and
> also contains code in preparation of future support for distributed
> rendering. These changes added a lot of complexity.

Thank you for reply!
I hope POV-Ray will be well documented and more easily for beginner to start
coding in the future.


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