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From: Simon de Vet
Date: 4 Oct 2002 13:03:12
Message: <3D9DC91C.4040806@is2.dal.ca>

I have a nice long file, in the format:

-1.000000E+01 -1.000000E+01 -1.000000E+01 1 1 0
-1.000000E+01 -1.000000E+01 -9.000000E+00 1 1 0
-1.000000E+01 -1.000000E+01 -8.000000E+00 1 1 0
-1.000000E+01 -1.000000E+01 -7.000000E+00 1 1 0
-1.000000E+01 -1.000000E+01 -6.000000E+00 0 1 -1
-1.000000E+01 -1.000000E+01 -5.000000E+00 0 1 -1
-1.000000E+01 -1.000000E+01 -4.000000E+00 0 1 -1


The first three columns are x, y, and z coordinates. The next three are 
data associated with the coordinates (to be represented as colour, size, 
etc..)

I haven't had much luck loading these into PovRay. Pov seems to want 
comma separated numbers, but this isn't feasable. I tried loading the 
numbers in one at a time with:

#read (datafile,buffer)

Then output them with:

#debug str(buffer,0,1)

but it seems to loose negative signs and get generally confused.

Any suggestions?

-- Simon

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