"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
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> Gleb wrote:
> >
> > > There is no graphics output in Povray, only some versions call API
> > > functions of the OS to display the render in the platform specific
code.
> > > This has nothing to do with the rendering program itself.
> > >
> > This is exactly what I mean: there is no graphics in Povray, but there
is
> > somehow binary images output
> >  and and input, isn't it?
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> Yes, but this is platform independant due to precautions in the image file
> format definitions.  Simply writing your floats and vectors to a file as
> binary with some IO functions would be different.
>

OK, thank you, the reason is much clear now. Format of floats is really
platform dependent,

but byte strings i/o would be enough in this case, and it is almost there
already.

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