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15 Sep 2025 10:16:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Impossible stl file conversion!  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 10 Sep 2025 12:55:00
Message: <web.68c1ac45a068c28cbe3debd925979125@news.povray.org>
"ingo" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

> for the current POV-Ray situation, I'm mostly writing my own little tools "that
> do things" and then call POV-Ray on the generated scene. The opposite of POV-Ray
> should be able to do it "all". Although I would like the latter,
>
> ingo

Well, given "the current POV-Ray situation", I'm trying to break out of that,
since "what is tolerated is what will continue".
I suppose I have a Persistence of Vision.  ;)

I'm not exclusionarily averse to things like macros and separate utilities,
however, it would be highly desireable to in some way integrate those things
into the POV-Ray "package".

An official repository on the website, a folder in the official distro, scripts
to run whatever conversion or creation needs to be done, or most preferable -
the inclusion of an additional module in the source.

I'm especially pushing for this stl module, since it appears so straightforward
a task (for a c++ programmer), and the availability of millions of free stl
files available.  We don't have a modeler - but there are models.

And it there are modelers available to make/edit stls.....

- BW


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