ABX wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> So there is no way to use photons data for multiplatform distributed rendering ?
> I'm surprised.

Not necessarily, the most common platforms are compatible in terms of the
photon data (there are no byte order problems, only non-IEEE floating
point numbers will be difficult).  But as i said this compatibility is
less than what is possible with POV-Ray itself.

Christoph

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