In article <398f27e6@news.povray.org>, "Rune" <run### [at] inamecom> 
wrote:

> I made this effect for fun, but I can't imagine why anyone would 
> actually want to use it for one of their images.

If you ever want to do a scene of, say, a bug on a newspaper, or any 
other scenes with a close-up of printing.


> And what was the PP effect supposed to be able to do? Make the print 
> effect only? I personally don't like features that have very limited 
> use only.

Actually, I was thinking of it as part of a "dither" post_process, which 
could also do other types of dithering in addition to this effect.


> And a PP effect is not even needed to get the effect (I accomplished 
> it without), so why would a PP effect be a good idea?

Much faster processing, the ability to have it automatically generated, 
an easy way to use it with other filters...

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