Spock wrote in message <38861b7e@news.povray.org>...
>There are just about as many ways of doing this as there are
>people who try, but my choice is to generate all the points at
>once using a standalone Java program and then writing them
>to a big 3-dimensional array in a file.  I load the file in POV
>and use array indices (x=frame, y=location, z=orientation)
>to control the placement of points.  I can alter the object at
>the point in POV, or do something radical like connecting the
>points with cylinders, etc. all in POV.  I also get to do things
>with the camera angle and background, but normally I spend
>all my time on the algorithm and end up with something lame
>like "beans" to illustrate the results :-)


Cool ... I figure pre-processing is the way most people do it.


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Paul Vanukoff
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