In article <397CC152.575CC3BB@yahoo.com>, lem### [at] yahoocom wrote:

> Why don't we simply try to build a POV-C++ library?  You would write 
> the code in full OOP in C style, compile it and that would give you a 
> scene renderer or anything else as useful... i don't know...  I just 
> like the idea of programming POV-Ray in C++ just as I do with 
> OpenGL...  That would be cool then to merge these two...  OpenGL for 
> the preview and POV-Ray for the final...
> 
> But that's up to you, I'm already programming in parallel with OpenGL and
> POV-Ray to test my camera movements and such...

Making libraries or frameworks in C++ or Java has been discussed, but 
doesn't fill the same purpose...it would require a compiler, for one 
thing. Also, these languages are much more complex, more difficult to 
learn, and aren't designed for scene description.

Still, it would be useful to have a framework to emit POV-Script and 
possibly call POV to render the script...I have a C++ vector class that 
I could contribute to the project, though Java might be a better choice 
for cross-platform compatibility. I doubt the POV-Team has the time to 
devote to such a thing, so it would be a 3rd party or community project.

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