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From: Tim Nikias
Subject: How are photons stored?
Date: 9 May 2002 07:16:06
Message: <3CDA5A50.35A171B@gmx.de>

How are photons stored when saved to disk?

The reason I ask is because I'd like to somehow read
and convert the photon-data via POV-Ray scripts and
thus create scenes in which a scene is made of pure
photon-placeholders, like spheres or such.

Just something to properly visualize photons in 3D
space.

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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: How are photons stored?
Date: 9 May 2002 09:20:21
Message: <3cda7795@news.povray.org>

In article <3CD### [at] gmxde> , Tim Nikias <tim### [at] gmxde>  wrote:

> and convert the photon-data via POV-Ray script

You can't.


    Thorsten


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From: Tim Nikias
Subject: Re: How are photons stored?
Date: 9 May 2002 09:24:57
Message: <3CDA7881.67C1ACBA@gmx.de>

:-(

Thanks for answering anyway. So, is there anyone with C++ knowledge
who could maybe write such a program for me? It would suffice to
convert the positions to a list of vectors, and if radius of photons
can be saved, saving those in a seperate list with floats.

If anyones up to it, I'd be happy...

Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> In article <3CD### [at] gmxde> , Tim Nikias <tim### [at] gmxde>  wrote:
>
> > and convert the photon-data via POV-Ray script
>
> You can't.
>
>     Thorsten

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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: How are photons stored?
Date: 9 May 2002 10:57:31
Message: <3CDA8E59.5286FA1C@gmx.de>

Tim Nikias wrote:
> 
> :-(
> 
> Thanks for answering anyway. So, is there anyone with C++ knowledge
> who could maybe write such a program for me? It would suffice to
> convert the positions to a list of vectors, and if radius of photons
> can be saved, saving those in a seperate list with floats.
> 
> If anyones up to it, I'd be happy...
> 

You can find some information on the data structures used for storing the
photons in: http://nathan.kopp.com/nk_pov_photons.zip

Christoph

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From: Tim Nikias
Subject: Re: How are photons stored?
Date: 9 May 2002 11:00:24
Message: <3CDA8EE0.36C40708@gmx.de>

Thanks, I'll have a look.

Christoph Hormann wrote:

> You can find some information on the data structures used for storing the
> photons in: http://nathan.kopp.com/nk_pov_photons.zip

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From: Tim Nikias
Subject: Re: How are photons stored?
Date: 9 May 2002 11:32:45
Message: <3CDA9674.B173929F@gmx.de>

Hm. I don't get along with that Post-Script Format very well.

Any free tools you could recommend?


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Subject: Re: How are photons stored?
Date: 9 May 2002 11:36:35
Message: <gq5ldug1vib3hv8muajshjldprbkfll9c1@4ax.com>

On Thu, 09 May 2002 17:32:04 +0200, Tim Nikias <tim### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> Hm. I don't get along with that Post-Script Format very well.
> Any free tools you could recommend?

http://www.ghostscript.com/

ABX

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