In article <3d8cf389@news.povray.org>, "Simon Adameit" <gom### [at] gmxde> 
wrote:

> What about making postprocess not part of POV-Ray but to write an external
> utily?
> POV-Ray would output some file containing all the neccesary information
> (normal, depth, ...) and then the user could postprocess the image in any
> way he wants using the PPL(postprocessing language) without having to
> compile POV-Ray just to add another postprocess.

Having patterns, pigments, warps, functions, and information that can't 
easily be written to file (such as intersected object) is a huge 
advantage, and post-process filters can be automated with the scene 
description language. The post-process utilities would have to 
incorporate most of POV's code and be automatically run by the scene 
file to equal the flexibility.

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