On Fri, 01 Sep 2000 02:59:19 -0700, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:

>If you mean the distribution would contain:
>
>pvengine.exe 
>postproc.exe
>
>you run the risk of being in the same boat as if you were
>to just use photoshop.exe to do your post processing work.

Then how about MAX and all its plugins and post-processing filters?
They are separate executables (well, not exes but still machine code)
but still they are lost without the main renderer because they need
information which is only available there (for example to motion-blur
a single object etc.) A paint program has access to the final image
data only and thus can't have depth-, object-, unclipped brightness-
etc. dependant functions.

So I think that even if the post processing engine is a separate
executable, or it's even some kind of plug-in engine, it will still
lie within the rules.


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