POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : new free HDRI : Re: new free HDRI Server Time
2 Aug 2024 02:27:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: new free HDRI  
From: Warp
Date: 13 May 2005 09:35:39
Message: <4284ad2b@news.povray.org>
Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> Think of 48bpp png as "extended dynamic range".

  I thought that the "dynamic" part referred to the fact that the
format uses floating point numbers (which can scale dynamically to
bigger ranges by changing the exponent part of the number). PNG only
uses integers which are mapped linearly, so there's no dynamicity
there.

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                                                          - Warp


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