POV-Ray is an unbelievable tool, but a charting package or a CAD package it is not. It's mostly used for static art and animation. IMHO, charts shouldn't have to worry about camera position and light sources. However (OT), I have long toyed with the idea of making a Perl module to build POV-Ray files in a clever way, as well as to automate POV-Ray, but this is more of a module idea than anything else.

If this is to be done manually (and only a few times), some really basic drawing program will be easier than POV (POV has a learning curve), and I suppose the reason this was posted in a Perl forum is because he would like to generate these tables automatically as some sort of schema or definition changes, or maybe there are a lot of schemas to generate.

Of course, the POV version could use the new radiosity features and would definitely be really shiny. Be sure to include lots of textured camels.

In reply to Re: Re: data cube (OLAP) graphic by flyingmoose
in thread data cube (OLAP) graphic by imcsk8

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