Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
: An image map would do - you don't need MegaPOV for this.

  Image maps have two problems:

  1. You have to create them and they are in a separate file. If you want
to create the image map with povray itself you will need two pov-files,
one for the image map, another for the scene. This causes extra work if
you want the image map being connected to the scene settings in some way
(for example the color of the letters depend on some identifier defined
in the main scene or whatever). Every time you want to change a setting
you have to calculate your image map again. If you have made the image
map with a painting program, then you'll have to draw it again every time.

  2. Image maps have limited and evenly distributed resolution. If you
put the image map on a surface which is near the camera and extends far
away from it, you'll have a pixelated texture near the camera and an
unnecessary large amount of data far away from the camera.

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