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From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 24 Jan 2004 17:52:03
Message: <ld9be1-q2n.ln1@triton.imagico.de>

Wolfgang Wieser wrote:
> [...]
> 
> If you think that I should re-implement PRTRenderer's functionality 
> using plain C and use PRTImageData and PRTTileHeap for their 
> purposes, I will very likely consider doing that. 

PRTImageData and PRTTileHeap are both completely undocumented and they 
do some really strange things - using 16 bit values for the image for 
example is understandable for memory size reasons but this makes it 
essentially incompatible to other patches (HDR output, post processing).

Christoph

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