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29 Mar 2024 02:27:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Filed() macro for CSV data file handling  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 15 Oct 2021 03:05:38
Message: <61692842$1@news.povray.org>
Hi Bill,
I shall just answer on those issues you mention about flowers.

Op 14/10/2021 om 19:38 schreef William F Pokorny:
> On 10/13/21 10:43 AM, jr wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> attached include file provides a macro for reading and writing the 
>> POV-Ray

>> a few
>> demo/example scenes.
>>
>>
> 
> Great work! Another useful macro - and some cool demos too. Robot 
> battles... ;-)
> 
> Ran through all the demos and didn't pick up any issues with my current 
> package of IO fixes / changes. I do have some comments on the Filed() 
> package itself.
> 
> ---
> 
> "...missing out a field or an empty field..."
> 
> perhaps?
> 
> "...a missing field or an empty field..."
> 
> ---
> 
> The flowers.pov file already has the tabulated.inc guard set to 1 
> contrary to the scene's comments.
> 
I missed that one!

> ---
> 
> The flowers_read.pov animation doesn't look to me to be picking up all 
> the yellow flowers? Maybe one or two per asteroid? I didn't investigate 
> though, perhaps it's working as expected?
> 
If you kept the default numbers of flowers (400 Red; 300 Yellow; total 
of 700 flowers in flowers.txt), those numbers are also rendered in 
flowers_read.pov. At least, that is what I see here. To be certain, just 
delete flowers.txt, and run flowers.pov again, after checking the number 
of flowers to be planted.

However, if you run the flowers.ini animation, be sure to set 
initial_frame and final_frame to the values you want. Standard, a range 
of frames is given, typically showing the passage from the Red flowers 
to the Yellow ones (in the default settings). For a complete animation, 
both values of course should be set accordingly.

> ---
> 
> With the flowers.ini AA, at least on linux with v3.8 and povr, the 
> method 3 AA doesn't look very good. Perhaps something like:
> 
> sampling_method = 2
> antialias_threshold = 0.005
> antialias_depth = 3
> jitter = on
> 
These are jr's settings. Note that I had to comment out the file_gamma = 
1 line, as this command resulted in very dark frames, compared to the 
original renders.

> ---
> 
> The toa example needs too the jr's ruled.inc - Ruled() and this is not 
> mentioned in the documentation and there is no pointer as to where to 
> grab it.
> 
> ---
> 
> The toa example needs the arial.ttf font which is not - by default - 
> available for most non windows users.
> 
> ---
> 
> With the toa example, where the "toa_state.txt" or "toa_run.log" already 
> exist we get an error message via toal__chkFilesExist(), but the error 
> message only says "existing file(s)" were found.
> 
> ---
> 
> Bill P.


-- 
Thomas


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