POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : new free HDRI : Re: new free HDRI Server Time
2 Aug 2024 02:28:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: new free HDRI  
From: Vincent LE CHEVALIER
Date: 13 May 2005 14:26:42
Message: <4284f162@news.povray.org>
Christoph Hormann wrote:
> Vincent LE CHEVALIER wrote:
> 
>> I think precisely that what Alain meant was that while 48bpp offers a 
>> greater dynamic range than 24bpp (namely 511:1 instead of 255:1)
> 
> 
> That's more likely 65535:1...
> 

Wooops indeed, I should avoid posts on friday the 13th ;-)
Well anyway you got the idea : 255:1 < 65535:1 < 65000:0.0000012 < 
10e38:10e-38, in terms of dynamic range. While precision and 
quantization would be another issue...

Thanks for correcting anyway :-)

-- 
Vincent


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