In article <408d3322$1@news.povray.org>,
 Nicolas Calimet <pov### [at] freefr> wrote:

> > It is portable.
> 
> 	Indeed, and this is why I answered to myself that I was wrong.

Oh, I see it now... "Yes, most likely."
I just mentally set it aside to figure out what you were talking about 
later, and it never "clicked". Sorry.


> It's just that I'm so used to softwares writing raw floating-point data
> by people who don't even know what is endianness that I was immediatly
> suspicious of using floating point in PNG... until I re-read your
> message and the bit distribution you proposed.

Understandable. Most people take the easy way out, either through 
ignorance or laziness. It'd probably be different if the C library 
included functions for converting to some cross-platform standardized 
format.


> 	As Christoph suggests, that would be quite nice to make it in
> the official PNG format, instead of making it a derivative.  That could
> go in e.g. libpng-1.3 -- the only drawback is: when would it appear ?
> (png and zlib developpers are not particularly fast at releasing new
> versions, and I don't know their policies in accepting contributions).

Well, I'll find out when I get around to emailing them about 
it...probably not until after finals.

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