"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> > Kenneth wrote...
> > I have a tendency to think about maths problems in a kind of 'visual' way. Who
> > knows, I may resort to a step-by-step visual explanation via Photoshop!
>
> Lots of time you can use a spreadsheet to lay things out and give you
> instantaneous results, and have a few extra calculations to keep a check on the
> intermediate and final results.
>
> Think of frames in an animation or different camera views as just another block
> of cells using different numbers...   Then you can see them all at once!

That's an intriguing idea.

I've actually never used a spreadsheet(!); never had occasion to do so. But I
can see that the idea would be useful. If I understand you're concept, I wonder
if some enterprising POV'er has previously come up with a way to put lots of
scene parameter values into a spreadsheet, then to apply those values (somehow)
to a POV-Ray scene, one 'group of values' at a time. As a suitably-correct .ini
text file or include file, for example.

Or maybe I'm way off base :-O

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