POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Writing binary files with POV script: Re: Writing binary files with POV script

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From: JC (Exether)
Date: 26 Aug 2003 03:00:59
Message: <3f4b05ab@news.povray.org>

Well, endianess can be taken into account by the primitives, you can 
have primitives outputing 4 bytes integers or IEEE floats so that you 
don't have to care about endianess. There could be a variable to give 
endianess of the machine too.

JC

Brendan Ryan wrote:
> JC (Exether) wrote:
> 
>> I would like to generate a df3 file directly from a pov script, 
>> generating it from pigments, a bit like Gilles' makecloud macro. But I 
>> had a look at the documentation, and it seems that you can only output 
>> text to a file.
>>
> 
> What about endianess?  Maybe the first byte or something could be used 
> to record the endianess used so that the data could be swapped if needed.
> 
> Brendan
>

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