Hey Everybody,
It's been about 3 years since I did any major POV'ing but I need to make
some quick, yet impressive, 3d images to go in my dissertation (Simulating
flocks with boid technlogy) and POv sprang to mind.  However Im extreamly
rusty andthe last time I touched animations with POV was back on my 486
using Daves TGA Animator kit.

What I need to do is read in a set of position coordinates and orientations
for each scene for a fintie number of positions (of fish), either from a
single flat text file or one for each frame, render them and string them
together.

The modelling, rendering and stringing together I have sorted - but it's the
parsing of the file(s) holding the data im having trouble with - does
anybody know of a quick (eg. pre-existing ) external program to do it or
does somebody have some hand-rolled POV code to do such a thing ?

Thanks awfully,

oli (glad to be back)

oliver (at - spammers evil software begone - )coldclimate.co.uk

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