See, the way I envision povray SDL working is like postscript- except
for 3d graphics. 


Povray should allow for including an image directly into the source
file.  

So that everything can be collapsed into a single file, including all
the images and the include files that everyone might not have. 

This can be an ascii file.  Maybe you can have an option to collapse
it both into ascii, and the compressed binary form. And an option to
convert easily between the two, since you all seem to have a problem
with not being able to look at the source code of a scene. 

Perhaps there was a standard binary equivilent for each object - such
as mesh2, which would greatly benefit from say, being able to have a
triangle mesh binary file that you can call directly into a scene
using an #include directive or something similar. 

Sure all of this can probably be done by hand, but that's not the
point. The point is not having to do it all by hand and just having a
single button you can press that will compile it into a single
collapsed file suitable for distribution, without all the problems
that come with requiring multiple files to render a scene. 

And have no doubt, there are problems with it.

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