Photon maps: from PovRay to Blender

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Hello,
I prepared an addon that could be interesting for the community. This addon creates povray files of the scene, produces caustics images by using photon maps in povray, then composes the Blender render with the povray image.

I shared some details inside this post:

Caustics by photons in Cycles?

Hi, this is just a mundane question specifically adressed to @brecht, since he is involved with Cycles development and core-design. I’d like to know if it’s worth of consideration the idea I posted here. In a nut-shell i proposed an alternative to those all-in-one complex modern algorithms, hard to implement (and harder on GPU), which is fragmenting rendering features into smaller ones. In this case all caustics effects would turn on a separate photonmapping engine that works in combination wi…

I need help to complete the addon in the right way. So, if someone is interested, please write me in pm.
Thank you!