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6 Oct 2024 14:03:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Pigment functions...  
From: Samuel Benge
Date: 12 Sep 2006 18:58:12
Message: <45073b84@news.povray.org>
Kenneth wrote:
> Samuel Benge <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> It lightens/darkens an image. It helps to fix dark scenes, or washed-out
>> scenes (which are less likely with POV).
>>
> True...and very useful...but OOH you'll hear loud cries of dissent
> from many in the POV community about "abusing gamma."
> (I massage assumed_gamma all the time ;-) Just another
> artistic tool, IMHO.)
> 
> Ken W.

Sometimes the only way to get enough color-saturation in a scene is to 
bump up the assumed gamma and brighten the lights. Or you could put a 
rgbt<1,1,1,2> plane in front of everything....

~Sam


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