POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Output Image METADATA of critical settings from POV-Ray?: Re: Output Image METADATA of critical settings from POV-Ray?

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Output Image METADATA of critical settings from POV-Ray? : Re: Output Image METADATA of critical settings from POV-Ray?		Server Time 29 Jul 2024 02:34:47 EDT (-0400)

From: Le Forgeron
Date: 16 Jul 2013 11:49:05
Message: <51e56b71@news.povray.org>

Le 16/07/2013 17:26, Jeff nous fit lire :
> Sure would be nice if there were a way for POV-Ray to encode a lot of the
> critical settings (command line quality/AA/etc. options) as well as possibly
> camera/lookat and all light vector locations, clock values into the JPG/PNG
> image similar to the way the digital cameras put all the ISO/focus/etc info
> tagged in there (even using simple metatags would be nice).  This would allow me
> to keep track of some limited link to at least a rudimentary amount of the
> settings used to generate an image many months later amid so many test
> renders...
> 
> Appologize if this is already covered...a quick search yielded only the
> following:
> 
>     http://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:File_Output_Options
> 
>         This metadata contains the POV-Ray version, render date/time (GMT),
> platform (e.g. x86_64-pc-win), and compiler used to build the POV-Ray
> executable.
> 
> which seems relatively limited in details...

The problem is that metadata are limited, on some format, to only 4
lines of exactly 80 characters (ascii only). there is no place for all
you have requested.

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