war### [at] tagpovrayorg news:412c47be@news.povray.org

>   The original concern was that an ascii file would take too much space.

But there could be two * two versions of such output,
1) text integer (default: max = 255)
2) text float (default: max = 1.000 precision=6.6 scientific_notation=1)
3) binary integer (default: max = 255 round_to_bytes=1)
4) binary IEEE float (default: max = 1.000)

in 2) precision and scientific notation define output text format 
precission.

In 3) round to bytes defines what to do with max=30000. 
It must be rounded to next 2^n power, to 32768- so 15 bits per color 
component. But it also could be rounded to next 2^(n*8) power so each color 
component would be aligned to a char/byte.

I think I can write such patch. Perhaps someone will help me to connect it 
to povcode - add parsing of tokens of command line for defining output and 
connecting it to file output module.


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