In article <3de2db07@news.povray.org>, "Skinou" <ski### [at] wanadoofr> 
wrote:

> Hello I am a french student and I work for a school project on a raytracer
> in C wich take a pov file and give a tga file.

It already exists and is called "POV-Ray". ;-)

Seriously, what you are talking about is basically a complete clone of 
POV, far too much work for a "school project". Just parsing the language 
would be a huge amount of work, assuming you only partially implement 
the renderer and don't require an exactly identical image. POV has 
developed bit by bit over many years and has countless odd little 
quirks, there is no language specification other than the documentation.

A simple language which would be similar enough to POV to render some 
POV scenes would be more doable, but I think you would be better off 
improving on it than doing a blind copy.

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