Re: [FWP] FWPerl&povray - Mad fractal plumber in the sky.

[tomr@aceldama.com]

John (et al.);

On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 09:07:11AM +0000, John Carter wrote:
> Fun With Perl And Povray.
> 
> There is very little in the obfusticated perl category here, but a
> lot of "fun" and "prettiness".
> 
> This is what you get if you combine perl + l-systems + povray....
> 
> A mad fractal plumber in the sky.... (Requires Povray3.1 from
> www.povray.org)
> 
> (If you don't feel like installing povray, you can see the result at
> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/5947/lurd.html)
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That's fun.

I've written a raytracer whose native scene language was Tcl (for
http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~cs488/ ) ... I found Tcl very
easy to augment but as a language I found it messy and very limited.
In fact, I ended up writing a Perl script to generate my Tcl:
http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~cs488/Images/A4/twrathbo.jpg

I've also written a lot of POVRay scenes by hand, and I find the
POVRay scene language nicer, but the syntax has seemed to become
hairier and hairier over the years, and the flow control and looping
seems very kludgey. Haven't looked at it for a while - perhaps it's
improved.

I'd really love to see a Perl module that lets me write scenes in
Perl, and generic enough to be used with various renderers. It could
have subclasses for renderer-specific features. I'd love to be able to
render the same scene in Radiance or POVRay by changing only a single
line of code. For POVRay integration, it could either write out a .pov
file or be linked directly into POVRay.

I just checked CPAN and didn't find any mention of 'pov' ... does
anyone know of any work being done along these lines?

Cheers,

Tom

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