Nathan Kopp wrote:

> For POV scenes, we don't use GIF animation and we really don't care if web
> browsers provide great support or not.  All I care about is if I can easily
> and freely convert the image I wish to use into a format that POV will read
> without losing any quality or functionality.  And that is possible with
> gif2png, as well as with paint programs such as Paint Shop Pro and/or
> Photoshop.
>
> -Nathan

No argument whatsoever on the legal necessity of removing GIF support.

I, too, support the general philosophy of groups like burnallgifs.org.
However, there is one thing that GIFs are marvelous for: animation! See, if you
haven't already:

http://www.geocities.com/pterandon/back.html

How could I do this w/o GIF's?

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Greg M. Johnson <gre### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote:
:> For POV scenes, we don't use GIF animation and we really don't care if web
:> browsers provide great support or not.

: I, too, support the general philosophy of groups like burnallgifs.org.
: However, there is one thing that GIFs are marvelous for: animation!

  He expressly said that we don't care.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote
> Greg M. Johnson <gre### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote:
> :> For POV scenes, we don't use GIF animation and we really don't care if
web
> :> browsers provide great support or not.
>
> : I, too, support the general philosophy of groups like burnallgifs.org.
> : However, there is one thing that GIFs are marvelous for: animation!
>
>   He expressly said that we don't care.

As far as I see, making GIF animations has little to do with the ability
of POV to read in GIFs as image maps, height fields, etc.  anyway

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> However, there is one thing that GIFs are marvelous for: animation!

Do a search for MNG.

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