Chris Cason wrote:
> Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
>> Actually implementation of the output would be relatively simple on the 
>> POV-Ray side, but I guess this feature will get low priority as long as 
>> there are major bugs to fix...
> 
> one approach we could take is to output the raw blocks of pixels in float
> format (basically just the raw pixels along with a simple header saying
> what the dimensions are) and allow a post-processing pipe to sort it out.

I was more thinking about byte output as it is easier to process. I.e. two 
bytes x/y each plus one byte block size plus pixels in rgb one byte each. 
Quite enough for a _preview_, and easy to process compared to floats when 
using a scripting language or as a beginner programmer.

	Thorsten

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