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  Re: DB->POV-> J/MPEG or [POV<->DB]->J/MPEG (i.e POV code chunks as DB objects)  
From: Daniel Matthews
Date: 23 Aug 2003 08:24:40
Message: <1223772.rTyIZskByY@3-e.net>
Rick [Kitty5] wrote:

> Daniel Matthews wrote:
>> Anyone had play with data driven POV or POV code as DB objects?
>> I recall somebody has use VBA to push data from MS Office into POV
>> but I don't recall seeing how it was done.
>> If I can do something interesting in this area I could be given
>> access to a couple of hundred GHz of CPU's to run it on, so any ideas
>> or pointers would be most welcome!
> 
> I have used VB to read data and spit out a pov file for a 'pretty bar
> graph' that was re-rendered every night for a company intranet.
> 
> As to interesting ideas, it depends on the kind of data you want to
> visualise, but with that much cpu I assume your thinking animation?

Animation is one option, I have detailed data of user interactions with a
knowledge management system. Objects in a Taxonomy, Time, event types, User
category etc.


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