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

[John Carter <john@dwaf-hri.pwv.gov.za>]

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 tomr@aceldama.com wrote:

> 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.

The flow control and looping is very very kludgy indeed. I'm
considering ignoring it and using embedded perl (eperl). 

> 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. 

That would be another route, but I'm not familiar with other ray
tracers to guess at what the benefits / complications of making it
renderer neutral.

Certainly mapping perl object to povray object would be a fairly
trivial (if tedious), but useful exercise.


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