On Sat, 2 Sep 2000 14:00:30 -0400, "Nathan Kopp" <Nat### [at] Koppcom>
wrote:

>Exactly.  It'd be great to be able to do something like that with POV (using
>DLL-like things), but there is currently no possible way to do that in a
>completely platform-independent way.  

How about Java? Post-processing does not usually account for a large
chunk of the total production time of a render so speed is not an
issue. Or if not java, maybe some other cross-platform language like
python.

>If it's legal
>for those commercial rendering engines, it should be legal for POV, too.

Is it currently not?

>Maybe this would require changing the rule in the IRTC.  If so, I think we
>should change the rule.  If anything, the rules should encourage use of
>POV-Ray, not discourage it.

Ditto that.


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