>The POV source has comments, but most of them are empty
>(fill-in-the-blank comments describing functions with the blanks left
>unfilled), and some of them misleading or are from old code that doesn't
>exist any more. And there are some fairly advanced algorithms and
>mathmatics used that you are unlikely to find in a booking system.
>Unless you already know all the algorithms used, learning the POV source
>and the algorithms in one week is unlikely. Getting an overall
>understanding of what the code does is a bit more possible.
>

Heh. True, true, you don't find interesting things in a booking system, just
a heap of syntactic sugar and 4 out 1000 lines of actual code...

The key here is 'unless your already know'...I do (dramatic music roll
here!)

No, seriously, I was a bit exaggerating: even knowing about the single
algorithms, grokking the whole source would take a lot more.
OTOH, having ported a C++ Linear Algebra  meant for SGI C++ to gcc2 in a
single night does qualify me for Source Surfer of The Week :) (have you
ever met a 27 MB library file? Sheesh, I loaded it on a 386 with 8 MB of
core. I can't say anymore the word 'thrashing', too many bad memories).

......

Hmmm, interesting....IrfanView and ACDSee support LogLuv TIFFs

I if read correctly libtiff(3), it already does colorspace conversion...

POV uses libtiff, right?
Anyone remembers how do we convert from RGB to XYZ?

Stay tuned,
Alex

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