The text-based format is certainly superior for a programmer, who can write a script to output POV-Ray data.
Blender of course has a Python API, but the text for POV-Ray is almost certainly easier to think and use. After all, Python's "print" statement is just easier to use than going into Blender docs wondering what bpy.context.blend_data is exactly.
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That's probably POV-Ray's biggest feature. It is truly a domain-specific language for describing 3d worlds and objects.
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The text-based format is certainly superior for a programmer, who can write a script to output POV-Ray data.
Blender of course has a Python API, but the text for POV-Ray is almost certainly easier to think and use. After all, Python's "print" statement is just easier to use than going into Blender docs wondering what bpy.context.blend_data is exactly.
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That's probably POV-Ray's biggest feature. It is truly a domain-specific language for describing 3d worlds and objects.