POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Status of Moray? : Re: New SDL for POVRay Server Time
14 Jul 2025 04:39:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: New SDL for POVRay  
From: Bryan Valencia
Date: 25 Sep 2007 14:16:39
Message: <46f95087$1@news.povray.org>
why not go super-simple?

lighting {4pm, August 12, Milan, Italy, outdoors}
city{detail=fine}

camera{Canon AE-1, F2.8, 1/100th
	filters{anti-glare, polarized}
}

car{Bentley, color Red, very shiny}

woman{sexiness 9.5, evening_wear{color Black fabric Silk} winking}




nemesis wrote:
> "Zeger Knaepen" <zeg### [at] povplacecom> wrote:
>> I mean: as it is now, POV-SDL has a C-like syntax.  I think it would be a
>> very bad idea to change the POV-SDL into a BASIC-like syntax, or a
>> Python-like syntax
> 
> hey, how about pretty much no syntax at all?
> 
> (union (plane y (pigment (checker 0 1)))
>          (sphere 0 1
>                  (texture (pigment (rgb x))
>                           (finish (phong 0.8 30)))))
> (light-source white (* 5 #(-1 1 -1)))
> (camera (z -3) 0)
> 
> well, except for Lots of Irritating Silly Parentheses, that is... :)
> 
> 
>


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