Daniel Richard G. wrote:
> [...]
> 
> It seems to me that one could realistically discuss deprecating (and
> eventually dropping) TIFF support from POV-Ray, to move away from what has
> always been a problematic format (and library). Image map files could be
> converted to another form without any loss in the process.

Well - that's true for most of the formats supported.  The variety of 
formats that can be used is mostly a convenience.

Note that image files (for reading) can be used in POV-Ray for different 
things than image maps.  For some of them Tiff is a common format but 
OpenEXR is not.

Christoph

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