"rick" <rep### [at] netscapenet> wrote in message
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> I'm fairly new to POVray.
> I'm interested in programming some simulations using POVray - but I
need to
> propagate values from one frame to the next. How do I do that in
POVray?
> everything I read says that motion is based on the value of the clock
> variable but I want to do a forward simulation where I set initial
values
> and then generate a number of frames based on values calculated
according
> to frame-by-frame updates.
>
> rick
> rep### [at] netscapenet


See section 6.2.3 of the manual, which covers file i/o.  You'll need to
write out your values to a text file, and read them back in for the next
frame.  I guess it's not the most elegant way of doing things, but it
works.

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