Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
 >>Would you please tell me the POV-Ray Macintosh command line syntax for
 >>specifying an INI file? Thank you!
 >
 > Sure, no problem:  You just specify the full file name on the 
command-line.
 >
 >     Thorsten

Thank you, that was very helpful. The files are now coming out 
**almost** the same on both computers, now that I'm using the same INI 
file on both machines with Display_Gamma=2.00 in both INI files.

There still appears to be a very slight difference between the outputted 
files, however. Although RGB pixel values are now pretty much the same 
all over, edge detail (anti-aliasing) looks like it's slightly different 
between the Mac and PC versions of the scene file. The Mac version looks 
slightly "smoother", for lack of a better description, but according to 
the INI file the anti-aliasing and jitter settings should be identical:

Input_File_Name=testscene.pov
Width=640
Height=480
Quality=9
Antialias=On
Antialias_Threshold=0.0
Sampling_Method=2
Antialias_Depth=2
Jitter=Off
Jitter_Amount=0.0
Output_Alpha=On
Output_File_Type=N
Warning_Level=0
Split_Unions=Off
Bounding_Threshold=25
Display=Off
Display_Gamma=2.00

The anti-aliasing differences seem to be more pronounced on shiny 
textures, especially ones that have normals with wrinkles. These aren't 
computed differently depending on the underlying CPU, are they? If not, 
the anti-aliasing algorithms are the same on the Mac and PC, aren't 
they? And they didn't change between POV-Ray 3.5 and 3.6, did they? 
Thank you.

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