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29 Jul 2024 02:23:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Saving an object?  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 7 Apr 2003 12:53:27
Message: <3E91AD06.89BA2DBF@gmx.de>
ABX wrote:
> 
> > What I was really hoping for was some sort of binary save,
> > ala photons.
> 
> AFAIK photons related files are not binary. They are probably fully portable
> ascii files. Supported portable format for exchenging objects are ascii files
> with scripts written in SDL.

photons are not stored in ascii but in binary form.  This of ocurse also
means that photon data files are not as portable as POV-Ray itself.  This
does not matter that much since photon data is not really intended to be
moved between different platforms.  

Christoph

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