In article <396BEB7C.C96D9B77@sierras.jpl.nasa.gov> , Eric Fielding 
<eri### [at] sierrasjplnasagov>  wrote:

> I see PICT (MacOS), PNG, Targa, PPM, and QuickTime (MacOS). I was hoping
> for TIFF or JPEG since those are the ones I use most, but I think I can
> get my images into PNG or PPM format.
>
> I assume that POV can read all of the formats that it can write (except
> QuickTime, of course)?

Yes, it can.  Note that, if you are using QuickTime 3.0 or later you can use
the "sys" format not only to import PICT, but basically any image format
QuickTime supports (i.e. those the QuickTime PictureViewer application will
display as well).
I think QuickTime 3.0 and later support TIFF and JPEG, so you should be able
to import these formats as "sys" image types.


     Thorsten


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Bob Hughes wrote:
People
> have also talked plenty about a Mpeg or Avi output for the Windows platform
> (among others too I guess).  Same subject comes up though about doing a
> lengthy hard-working rendering of frames only to end up with a possible
> problem dealing with compressed images and no way to get back to original
> uncompressed images.
> Call it fool-proofing if you will  :-)
> Happy to hear you are getting to where you're going there.
> 
> Bob

presumably ratraced images are converted into some format while they are
being rendered which is why you can stop an image and find it on your
drive half done.  why not just add another conversion at the same time?
ie render the bmp and avi at the same time.  because render time is so
processor heavy, would the extra disk access time make that big of an
impact?

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