POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Short code competition number 4 : Re: Short code competition number 4 Server Time
1 Aug 2024 04:15:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Short code competition number 4  
From: Tek
Date: 4 Oct 2006 22:26:14
Message: <45246d46@news.povray.org>
Yeah it does suck that if you want natural lighting you have to waste so 
many characters in "global_settings{assumed_gamma 1}", I mean that's 1/8th 
the file size gone already! Personally I'm just trying to cope without it, 
but it hurts :(

-- 
Tek
http://evilsuperbrain.com

"Blue Herring" <bhe### [at] tinfoilcatcom> wrote in message 
news:web.45228f94e7874c87a4e843e0@news.povray.org...
> "Paul Bourke" <pau### [at] uwaeduau> wrote:
>> Round four of the POVRay short code contest
>>
>> Not quite a full on announcement but close enough.
>>
>> Please point your browser here and make any suggestions, comments, 
>> wording,
>> etc.
>>    http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/scc4/
>>
>> Very similar to the last one in 2004 except ...
>> - Voting by entrants only
>> - Source code available during voting, you vote on the craft as well as 
>> the
>> image
>> - No external resources, eg: #include, font files, and so on.
>
> Would it be possible to assume anything about global settings, or will we
> need to include a block in the source code?  I was thinking mainly about
> assumed_gamma and max_trace_level.  Especially with assumed_gamma, without
> it no gamma information is included in a png file, and that could 
> radically
> change how any image looks to different viewers.  Thanks.
>
>
>


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