On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 23:27:47 -0800, Ryan Constantine
<rco### [at] yahoocom> wrote:

>(in matrices).  so i was wondering two things: 1) how is pov's speed in
>math computations compared to matlab, and 2) would matlab be a good
>platform to do serious calculations for export to pov (if that's
>possible)?

Matlab is a great tool for numerical computations, but if speed is
crucial Fortran does a better job in my experience. This is probably
because Matlab's routines are often unnecessary complex; if you write
a routine in Fortran (or C) you can make more efficient code. I think
the same goes for Povray, since it's code is optimized for raytracing.

As for you second question, the only way to utilize Matlab in Povray
is to generate pov code in Matlab.

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