> Ger <No.### [at] thankyou> wrote:
>> I think you need to make the distinction between "Stuff that acts upon the
>> render" and "Stuff that acts upon the finished image". The former has to be
>> inside POV. The latter better stay out.
> 
>   I would prefer 1000 times more to do post-processing of the final image
> with POV-Ray itself than having to code a separate program for that purpose.
> It would simply be way too cumbersome, waste disk space, waste time, and
> waste everything.

As long as "doing it with POV-Ray itself" gives the same flexibility as 
doing it externally.  If you have to re-render to change a post-process 
parameter, as currently in MegaPOV, it's (mostly) useless...

If, in a first move, POV-Ray gave the ability to output data (in the 
form of images, probably) about depth, normal, full color values, etc...
alongside with the actual render, it would already allow many post-
process operations with existing software (why not a specific GIMP
version...).  Flexibility is the word, in any case.

Fabien.

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