On 20-8-2015 8:20, Stephen wrote:
> 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.
>

Yes, POV-Ray can use POT files for height_fields. See the Docs.

Fractint was far from infamous. To the contrary, it was the most 
formidable mandelbrot generator of its days available to the general 
public. It contributed to my discovery and use of POV-Ray too.

-- 
Thomas

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