"Ron Parker" <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote in message
news:slr### [at] fwicom...
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:14:35 -0500, eric wrote:
> > Currently if you are running in sixteen bit mode it creates a banded image.
> > I have tried exporting a 24 bmp and then coverting it to a 16 bit targ but
> > this creates the banding (as i suspected)  the best solution is really to
> > have pov export this way.
>
> The banding is an inherent property of 16-bit images.  The only way to get
> around it is to use some sort of dithering, but that is not something we want
> to do in POV itself.
>

Maybe adding a granite normal will result in some sort of random dithering.



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