>>>Now I'm going to render it and see.  :)
>>
>>Heh. Hope you have a fast PC...
> 
> I yi yi!  I had to give it up.  I'm guessing the
> media is what slows it down.

Indeed. It does seem a little excessively slow, even for media...

Oh well, it was only supposed to demonstrate my Huffman decoder. (I 
think I should have picked a scene file that actually *needed* 
compressing, really... But I was going for the whole mirror-sphere 
thing. LOL.)

>>I actually tried to write a version that uses arithmatic coding. In 
>>fact, it works. Expect... Sometimes - just sometimes - the decoder 
>>utterly looses synchronisation with the encoder, and I can't figure out 
>>why. :'(
> 
> you wrote an arithmetic coder as a pov-ray script?

Uh, yes.

> Ow.  That musta hurt.  I have one in c and that was
> a PITA to get working.

In C, *everything* hurts!

No, my arithmatic decoder works lovely... except... it randomly goes 
wrong sometimes, and I don't know why. I _think_ there's something wrong 
with the underflow handling either in the decompressor, or the extermal 
program I use for encoding...

Andrew.

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