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2 Sep 2024 04:13:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 2 Problems with Megapov .5  
From: Thomas Willhalm
Date: 17 May 2000 06:37:56
Message: <qqmya59h37f.fsf@schlatt.fmi.uni-konstanz.de>
Glen Berry <7no### [at] ezwvcom> writes:

> 
> What about outputing animation frames to an "archive file" of some
> type (ie ZIP file)?  If you went this route, then there would only be
> one file for all the frames, and its name would be easier to deal
> with. The individual frames inside the archive could then have a pure
> numerical sequence for their names. Something like 00000001.TGA could
> be the first file name inside the archive, and 00000002.TGA could be
> the second, and so on.
> 
> In case there is some objection to the compression of ZIP files,

For compression I suggest using zlib. This is the same as gzip and it
has the advantage that zlib is already included in POV-Ray.

Thomas
 
-- 
http://thomas.willhalm.de/ (includes pgp key)


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