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When enabled, all RIB files and archives are written in compressed form. Compressed RIBs are about 4 times smaller than their uncompressed counterpart. Compressed binary files are only slightly better than compressed ASCII files (compression ratios do not multiply).
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Compressed RIBs are ordinary gzipped files and can be uncompressed using gunzip. This also means that 3Delight natively reads gzipped RIB files and archives. It is common to name such compressed RIBs with a '.gz' extension, such as in: scene.rib.gz. |
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