Re: vrml/povray output ("terminal")

[Christoph B. <us...@be...>]

On 21.01.2016 09:55, folkert wrote:
>
> At http://t-kita.net/gnuplot_povrml/ I found a patch for gnuplot to add
> povray and/or vrml output. Especially the last one I think is useful
> because it allows one to easily view for example an splot from all
> kinds of directions.
> Now I'm wondering: what does it take to get it to be included in the
> main gnuplot distribution?

That patch was build upon gnuplot 4.0, 11 years ago, and doesn't apply 
to the current version. After fixing two small rejected hunks in 
plot2d.c and plot3d.c I could compile it, but it gave me a segfault 
error when doing a rather simple splot...

Additionally, those two terminals 'povray' and 'vrml' do their whole 
work of creating the output files directly inside plot3d.c, 
circumventing the usual terminal working mechanisms. I guess those 
terminals would need a complete rewrite before considering their 
inclusion in the main source.

Best,
Christoph