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From: Rick [Kitty5]
Date: 23 Aug 2003 05:54:38
Message: <3f4739de$1@news.povray.org>

Daniel Matthews wrote:
> Anyone had play with data driven POV or POV code as DB objects?
> I recall somebody has use VBA to push data from MS Office into POV
> but I don't recall seeing how it was done.
> If I can do something interesting in this area I could be given
> access to a couple of hundred GHz of CPU's to run it on, so any ideas
> or pointers would be most welcome!

I have used VB to read data and spit out a pov file for a 'pretty bar graph'
that was re-rendered every night for a company intranet.

As to interesting ideas, it depends on the kind of data you want to
visualise, but with that much cpu I assume your thinking animation?

-- 
Rick

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