"J. M. Rowlett" <row### [at] andrewcmuedu> writes:

> What would be really cool is, if the POV-Ray engine were a COM object, and
> you fed it interfaces to other COM objects to render.  That way my script
> parser and CAD software would simply expose shape and texture interfaces to
> the engine, allowing me to embed the POV-Ray Engine anywhere, even a
> WebPage.  This model should be flexible enough to allow me to aggregate
> custom shapes and textures through the script parser or CAD software.  I
> could even have a local Open-GL engine or remote renderer (using DCOM) ,
> that I could hot-swap in my client App.

Man, you can already do this, quite simply really:
script-generator | povray -i- -o- | image-processor-or-whatever

Roland.
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