How far along is this CSDL thing?  This question is akin to seeing into the
future, but is CSDL a possibility for the scene description language for
POV-Ray 4.0?
(just wondering)

"Chris Huff" <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in message
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> I've been working on the idea of a CSDL (C-like Scene Description
> Language) for a while now, I might start writing an interpreter soon. It
> would be a language loosely based on C (the loop and conditional syntax,
> {} blocks, semicolon statement endings, etc), but designed around the
> idea of manipulating objects (shapes) in a 3D environment. It would be a
> separate program that would take a CSDL file and output a .pov file (and
> possibly formats for other renderers), platform specific versions could
> automatically render the output file.
> There wouldn't be any "classes", objects would inherit from other
> objects, and inheritance would be done by creating a modified copy of
> the parent object. There would be a base object, a "prototype" that all
> shapes and other objects would inherit from.
>
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> Christopher James Huff
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