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2 Sep 2024 12:17:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Another post_process idea  
From: Nathan Kopp
Date: 28 Apr 2000 13:37:09
Message: <3909cc45$1@news.povray.org>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote...

>   If the function is applied in a pixel-by-pixel basis, regardless of the
> other pixels, why can't it be done on the fly, as someone else suggested?
> It would certainly save lots of memory and/or disk space usage.

However, limiting filters to a single pixel of data greatly limits the
functionality.  Almost all photoshop filters (including relatively simple
ones of the "filter factory" type) use access multiple pixels at a time.

-Nathan


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