Re: Perl 'Expert' Quiz of the Week #26 (Tk roller coaster simulation)

On Oct 21, 2004, at 8:09 AM, Xavier Noria wrote:
> Write a Tk application that draws the track...

This is a bit off topic, but I have to bring up this cool POV-Ray 
competition entry from back in '98:

http://oz.irtc.org/ftp/pub/anims/1998-07-15/marble.mpg

If you list the directory that movie is in you can see a text file with 
a description of how he did it. This is mostly off topic since he used 
splines and a 3d track. On the other hand, POV-Ray input files and Perl 
are a great match (the author of that used perl to generate the input 
files for example). Even with a 2d track of straight segments you 
should get some nice results. You can get a big bang for just a little 
buck since it's all just text.

John