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30 Apr 2024 15:31:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Povray directly from C program  
From: Warp
Date: 21 Apr 2007 17:01:47
Message: <462a7bbb@news.povray.org>
Gerolf Ziegenhain <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Is it possible to use povray as some kind of library? Such that it could
> directly be used from within a C program (whithout writing a text file with
> the scene ;). I want to use it for visualizing atomistic simulations.

  You can't link POV-Ray into your program directly, as the usage license
expressly prohibits that.
  In Windows you can call POV-Ray using its extension mechanism (for
example Moray does that). In other systems I don't think there's much
choice.

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                                                          - Warp


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