POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Heightfield modification : Re: Heightfield modification Server Time
6 Oct 2024 06:03:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Heightfield modification  
From: Stephen
Date: 20 Aug 2015 02:20:42
Message: <55d571ba$1@news.povray.org>
On 8/20/2015 6:03 AM, clipka wrote:
> There/used/  to be a special variant of the .gif format known as POT
> files, back in the good old times when most file formats were limited to
> 8 bit (total!) per pixel.
>
> To my knowledge, POV-Ray was never able to write this format itself (in
> fact it seems that the only commonly known program that ever wrote this
> type of format was the infamous FractInt), and I'm not even sure whether
> POV-Ray can still read it.

That is how I first heard of PovRay. From the FractInt (why infamous?) 
help doc.

-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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