POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : My ideas : Re: My ideas Server Time
19 Nov 2024 18:44:26 EST (-0500)
  Re: My ideas  
From: Warp
Date: 20 Jan 2002 11:38:06
Message: <3c4af26e@news.povray.org>
Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
:> I don't think the "virus" is available, and it wouldn't work with the
:> security features in POV 3.5 anyway.

: It would work if the security features were disabled.

  The problem with that "virus" is that it has no way to get a file listing,
ie. no way to know how files are named in the current directory.
  You can imagine how slow it is to go through all possible file names in
povray sdl... (it's extremely slow even with a highly-optimized C code).

-- 
#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -


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