Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> m1j wrote:
> > I have a wish list item. It would be nice to have the option when rendering
> > partial images to have povray output both files with the image size
> > information set to the size of the sub part and files where zero's have
> > filled out the "empty" parts of the image. An ini file/commandline option
> > to tell povray how to save the file.
>
> It is not likely that this will be implemented for reasons already
> explained quite often.
>
> I wrote a shell script for the POVCOMP doing this as post processing for
> a partial PPM image:
>
> http://www.povcomp.com/guidelines/
>
>
> Christoph
>
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From the past post it sounds like this option is not an impossible task but
an unwilling task. And for a feature to be used in the povcomp rules that
by one of the creators of the program is only to be used for continuing a
render seems to smack contradiction. Either we as users have a need for
uncorrupted partial output from povray or we do not.

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