In article <3d4a9a10@news.povray.org>, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> 
wrote:

> > You could just standardize on one floating point format for the POV data 
> > files, and write platform indpendant code that reads it byte by byte and 
> > converts it to a float or takes a float and writes it in the correct 
> > format, but the format might have different precision from what is 
> > native on some platforms.
> 
>   You know what? That's exactly what POV-Ray does currently. :)

Where does POV currently read and write floating-point data? The only 
cases I can think of are the radiosity and photon data files, and I 
never tried transferring them to a different platform...wouldn't think 
they would be worth the effort.

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