Using povray to export data

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Is there any mechanism in POVRay to export data? I've used some SDL code to create a long list of points needed to render my scene and it strikes me that if I could export those once created it would speed up my rendering. I figure I could use #debug statements to output formatted strings I could use for my array initialization and direct output to a future include file, but I was wondering if I was missing any better way of doing this?

Thanks, BBB

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 04 '12 at 15:20

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Without going in and fiddling with POVRay source code, I can't imagine how you would do it. There's no option to load data in any form other than SDL and POVRay never outputs SDL - it only reads it.

answered May 04 '12 at 15:20

David Buck

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 25 '12 at 01:28

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Yes, povray outputs all kinds of formats. See: http://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:File_I/O_Directives There may also be example files that ship with povray that do this.

answered Sep 25 '12 at 01:28

pterandon

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Using povray to export data

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