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  Re: Import of measurement data (ASCII format) in animation  
From: clipka
Date: 4 Mar 2016 13:09:51
Message: <56d9cf6f$1@news.povray.org>
Am 04.03.2016 um 18:21 schrieb Bald Eagle:

> If I read all the data in from the file, then render the first frame,
> what will happen is that upon rendering the 2nd frame, the data gets read in
> AGAIN, over and over and over.
> 
> Any ideas for fixes for this?
> This looks like the ole' Persistence of Data across frames problem.
> "POV needs POD!"

UberPOV has an experimental feature to carry over data from one frame to
the next (or, actually more to the point, from one render to the next,
regardless of whether those are two frames in an animation or entirely
independent renders), using "#persistent" instead of "#declare".


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