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4 Sep 2024 18:14:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Reading data from a file  
From: Warp
Date: 4 Oct 2002 14:36:06
Message: <3d9ddf95@news.povray.org>
Simon de Vet <sde### [at] is2dalca> wrote:
> I have a nice long file, in the format:

> -1.000000E+01 -1.000000E+01 -1.000000E+01 1 1 0

> I haven't had much luck loading these into PovRay. Pov seems to want 
> comma separated numbers, but this isn't feasable.

  Why not?

  If you want to add the commas, you can use any editor with
search&replace and replace the whitespaces with commas.

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

  -something -something -something is a substraction and POV-Ray probably
reads it as such.

-- 
#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -


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