Am 14.04.2017 um 00:24 schrieb Kenneth:
> Instead of re-rendering the entire full-scene animation to include this change,
> I decide to pick a small subsection of the frame to re-render--just that area
> for 1000 frames, to save lots of rendering time-- the idea being to 'composite'
> that small area into the animation later (either within POV-Ray itself as simple
> layered image_maps, or in some other app.) For this to work, the 1000 small
> subsection frames all need to have an alpha-channel mask (and in the proper
> location, of course)-- with the entire area around the rectangular section being
> completely transparent.

This has been suggested earlier, and it's on the agenda... somewhere.
But on my first shot at it I noticed that it is a bit trickier than I
expected -- one more case where I expect implementing the feature to
become a good deal easier once I've refactored some relevant portions of
the code.

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