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28 Jul 2024 10:32:07 EDT (-0400)
  Re: INFO: API for POV-Ray  
From: Kenneth Johansson
Date: 21 Apr 1999 20:07:42
Message: <371E4E5B.5476FA8E@canit.se>
Alessandro Coppo wrote:

> A couple of months ago I put forward the idea to separate the rendering
> engine from the user interface and got a flat NO (actually it was almost a
>

I'am a bit confused is not povray a command line utility? Under unix I dont
even hava a UI.


> flame war!!!) from the POV-Ray team. I think the only way to use POV-Ray is
> like what TextureView does, i.e. shelling out POV-Ray, making
> it render a file and intecepting the image output. Not a great idea, but
> THEY (POV-Ray team) would not even accept the idea of dinamically linked
> modules... so I think this is the end.
>

Hmm whats wrong with it ? What do you want to do get access to the internal
representation and directly insert object whitout going thru the povray
language?? That would be quite limiting to future development I think.


>
> Alessandro Coppo
> a.c### [at] iolit
> www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Way/8111/
>
> Hassoun Karam wrote in message <371B4CDA.522252A5@sympatico.ca>...
> >Hi
> >
> >i would like to know if there is a free API for pov-ray 3.1 for win95,
> >or anything else that would be considered as such.
> >
> >thanks in advance
> >Hassoun
> >


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