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From: Daniel Matthews
Subject: DB->POV-> J/MPEG or [POV<->DB]->J/MPEG (i.e POV code chunks as DB objects)
Date: 22 Aug 2003 19:04:33
Message: <2116866.tAdCJkxZ54@3-e.net>
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Anyone had play with data driven POV or POV code as DB objects?
I recall somebody has use VBA to push data from MS Office into POV but I
don't recall seeing how it was done.
If I can do something interesting in this area I could be given access to a
couple of hundred GHz of CPU's to run it on, so any ideas or pointers would
be most welcome!
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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: DB->POV-> J/MPEG or [POV<->DB]->J/MPEG (i.e POV code chunks as DB objects)
Date: 23 Aug 2003 01:57:50
Message: <3f47025e@news.povray.org>
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In article <211### [at] 3-e net> , Daniel Matthews <dan#@3-e.net>
wrote:
> Anyone had play with data driven POV or POV code as DB objects?
What's a "DB object"?
Thorsten
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From: Rick [Kitty5]
Subject: Re: DB->POV-> J/MPEG or [POV<->DB]->J/MPEG (i.e POV code chunks as DB objects)
Date: 23 Aug 2003 05:54:38
Message: <3f4739de$1@news.povray.org>
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Daniel Matthews wrote:
> Anyone had play with data driven POV or POV code as DB objects?
> I recall somebody has use VBA to push data from MS Office into POV
> but I don't recall seeing how it was done.
> If I can do something interesting in this area I could be given
> access to a couple of hundred GHz of CPU's to run it on, so any ideas
> or pointers would be most welcome!
I have used VB to read data and spit out a pov file for a 'pretty bar graph'
that was re-rendered every night for a company intranet.
As to interesting ideas, it depends on the kind of data you want to
visualise, but with that much cpu I assume your thinking animation?
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From: Gilles Tran
Subject: Re: DB->POV-> J/MPEG or [POV<->DB]->J/MPEG (i.e POV code chunks as DB objects)
Date: 23 Aug 2003 08:03:50
Message: <3f475826$1@news.povray.org>
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news:211### [at] 3-enet...
> Anyone had play with data driven POV or POV code as DB objects?
> I recall somebody has use VBA to push data from MS Office into POV but I
> don't recall seeing how it was done.
I have a MS Access app that reads Oracle data, turns them into a POV-script
(to make 2D charts), launches a command-line POV-Ray for MS-Dos and displays
the image file.
Nothing really special here, just a text output and a shell command if I
remember.
Now if POV-Ray had native ODBC/SQL capabilities ;-)
#sql "SELECT CATEGORY, COUNT FROM DATA"
G.
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From: Daniel Matthews
Subject: Re: DB->POV-> J/MPEG or [POV<->DB]->J/MPEG (i.e POV code chunks as DB objects)
Date: 23 Aug 2003 08:24:40
Message: <1223772.rTyIZskByY@3-e.net>
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Rick [Kitty5] wrote:
> Daniel Matthews wrote:
>> Anyone had play with data driven POV or POV code as DB objects?
>> I recall somebody has use VBA to push data from MS Office into POV
>> but I don't recall seeing how it was done.
>> If I can do something interesting in this area I could be given
>> access to a couple of hundred GHz of CPU's to run it on, so any ideas
>> or pointers would be most welcome!
>
> I have used VB to read data and spit out a pov file for a 'pretty bar
> graph' that was re-rendered every night for a company intranet.
>
> As to interesting ideas, it depends on the kind of data you want to
> visualise, but with that much cpu I assume your thinking animation?
Animation is one option, I have detailed data of user interactions with a
knowledge management system. Objects in a Taxonomy, Time, event types, User
category etc.
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From: Daniel Matthews
Subject: Re: DB->POV-> J/MPEG or [POV<->DB]->J/MPEG (i.e POV code chunks as DB objects)
Date: 23 Aug 2003 08:26:22
Message: <3381086.Ha0IoZhP2u@3-e.net>
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Gilles Tran wrote:
> news:211### [at] 3-enet...
>> Anyone had play with data driven POV or POV code as DB objects?
>> I recall somebody has use VBA to push data from MS Office into POV but I
>> don't recall seeing how it was done.
>
> I have a MS Access app that reads Oracle data, turns them into a
> POV-script (to make 2D charts), launches a command-line POV-Ray for MS-Dos
> and displays the image file.
> Nothing really special here, just a text output and a shell command if I
> remember.
>
> Now if POV-Ray had native ODBC/SQL capabilities ;-)
> #sql "SELECT CATEGORY, COUNT FROM DATA"
>
> G.
>
Exactly! Oh the possibilities...
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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: DB->POV-> J/MPEG or [POV<->DB]->J/MPEG (i.e POV code chunks as DB objects)
Date: 23 Aug 2003 08:59:40
Message: <3F47653C.9D530B83@gmx.de>
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Gilles Tran wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> Now if POV-Ray had native ODBC/SQL capabilities ;-)
> #sql "SELECT CATEGORY, COUNT FROM DATA"
I think that would be quite special but i assume a general possibility to
run system commands from within the script would suffice for that (of
course this would have serious security implications).
Christoph
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