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  Re: Does POV-Ray supports user written plugins for importing=09 datasets?  
From: karla
Date: 3 Jun 2004 13:45:00
Message: <web.40bf631dc2a27e6100aded90@news.povray.org>
Thank you !

"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> In article <web.40bcda3483a589a5100aded90@news.povray.org> , "karla"
> <kar### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>
> > I would like to know if POV-Ray supports user written plugins for importing
> > datasets,
>
> What kind of datasets?  Maybe the File I/O Directives
> (http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/147/) of POV-Ray are sufficient?
>
> > or do I need to convert the data into another format and then
> > convert it into POV-Ray format?
>
> There is no need for some fancy conversion program.  POV-Ray uses a simple
> text format (as explained in the user manual) and it should be trivial to
> directly convert your datasets to a scene you can render directly, assuming
> you have some code able to parse your datasets, of course.
>
>     Thorsten
>
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> e-mail: tho### [at] trfde
>
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