I don't know what you're actually after here. Reading
the data? And can you modify the way in which the
data is written? If you're working from within POV with
POV-script, reading and writing could be done with
my IO-Macros, but aside of that, I don't know how I
could help.

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Tim Nikias v2.0
Homepage: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights
Email: Tim### [at] gmxde

> Hey Everybody,
> It's been about 3 years since I did any major POV'ing but I need to make
> some quick, yet impressive, 3d images to go in my dissertation (Simulating
> flocks with boid technlogy) and POv sprang to mind.  However Im extreamly
> rusty andthe last time I touched animations with POV was back on my 486
> using Daves TGA Animator kit.
>
> What I need to do is read in a set of position coordinates and
orientations
> for each scene for a fintie number of positions (of fish), either from a
> single flat text file or one for each frame, render them and string them
> together.
>
> The modelling, rendering and stringing together I have sorted - but it's
the
> parsing of the file(s) holding the data im having trouble with - does
> anybody know of a quick (eg. pre-existing ) external program to do it or
> does somebody have some hand-rolled POV code to do such a thing ?
>
> Thanks awfully,
>
> oli (glad to be back)
>
> oliver (at - spammers evil software begone - )coldclimate.co.uk
>

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