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6 Sep 2024 14:14:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: programming languages  
From: Johannes Hubert
Date: 1 Apr 1998 05:39:36
Message: <35221968.E36F9CA9@penttech.com>
Ross Litscher wrote:

> Every once in a while, I come across an image on the web produced with
> povray and then it says something about using a programming language
> such as basic or c. After a quick browse through the sections of the pov
> docs I didn't see anything obvious on why or how this is done. Can
> someone throw me an IP adress that may have some info on this? Thanks
> alot for any information.

I don't have a URL for you, but after your description I could think of two
things:1. Going into POV-Ray's code itself and customizing it (that would be
C) - but I don't think this is what you were asking for.
2. Write a program (in any language) that outputs a POV-script. You know,
like having a little BASIC program writing lots of random spheres into a
script and so on. I guess these people you mentioned used other programs to
generate POV-scripts whenever the POV-language was inadequate or too
unwieldy for the task.

Well, those are my guesses.

Greetings, Johannes.


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