Kenneth wrote:
> BTW, If you haven't already done so, I
> would strongly recommend taking a look at the following (more or less
> definitive) website about this, and the gamma question in general...
> 
> http://www.poynton.com/notes/Timo/Concerning_Timo.html
> and fish around for Poynton's other pages as well, especially his GAMMA FAQ.
>  A very knowledgable fellow.

I didn't know about that Timo incident, but I do know Poynton's Gamma 
FAQ, Color FAQ etc. They're among the primary sources of my knowledge in 
this area, actually.

I just followed some links from there and ended up at an interesting 
article that seems to contradict what I said about the moon: 
<http://www.optics.arizona.edu/Palmer/moon/lunacy.htm> (Caution: his GIF 
images of a lambertian sphere are encoded with a gamma of 1 and don't 
appear correctly on usual displays! In fact, I wouldn't be too surprised 
if they were made using POV-Ray without an assumed_gamma statement.)

> Before commenting further, a quick question: What computer
> system are you running POV on?

Mac OS X on PPC G4, mostly. Occasionally, Linux or Windows on x86. Why?

  -Christian

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