Just a note:
Did you check Breeze Designer?  It allows for using any script language
including Python, if the ActiveX scripting engine is installed on Windows.
Maan

"Risto Varanka" <var### [at] ikifi> wrote in message
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> Funny, I was just about to restart work on my Python project for
> creating .pov files when I came across this thread ;)
>
> Creating our scenes using programming languages is a rather
> interesting subject, because programming languages are
> extremely powerful. We can define the scene in our own
> concepts and build our own interfaces. We can integrate with the
> rest of the OS platform, eg. to visualize IP router or WWW server
> logs :) I had been thinking of many of the ideas people proposed
> in this thread, it only strikes me as funny that nobody proposed
> reading the objects etc. to render from a SQL database ;)
>
> The Povray scene description language can be fairly simple and bare
> bone, as we can always create our own complex systems to describe
> scenes. However, I doubt if another, general purpose scene
> description language can be that useful. Povray users will use
> the software for very different things, and they like to work
> at various abstraction levels, for various aspects of their
> scenes. I like to do stuff like
>
> for i in range(24):
>         angle = i * pi / 12
>         x = cos(angle)
>         y = sin(angle)
>         bigtower(30 * x, 30 * y)
>
> Which will place 24 towers with detailed decorations in a circle...
> could be extended to put connectors between them, etc.
>
> I use a simple Python program(s) to write the objects in a .pov file.
> It is in procedural style and doesn't do very much yet, but it's
> quite handy for my purposes.
>
> But my project is more than that: it's a complete solution for
> handling Povray projects. I use Python, shell scripts and make
> to create the .pov file and render it. I'll need to add creating
> new projects and archiving existing ones to it.
>
> I thought it could be added to the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
> as a package. I think you could run it on other platforms as well,
> because UNIX-like environments are available there. I gather there
> are similar projects out there, so maybe I'll just do some minor
> contributions to one, instead of reinventing the wheel.
>
> --
> Risto Varanka
>
>

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