Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> Yes, exactly! And if you refer back to the original post you will see
> exactly that problem taking place - POV-Ray is a viewer of images! It shows
> you the preview, and the original poster complained that his viewer program
> does not handle gamma correctly. POV-Ray as viewer does. Now it writes the
> image correctly, with the information needed to recreate exactly its
> preview. But the outside viewer program ignores what POV-Ray included in the
> image.

  Then why do all other image formats look the same with the viewer
programs as how povray shows them? Why is PNG the only format that
makes a difference? Why can't povray create the PNG in the same way
as it creates the other, non-problematic image formats (IOW. without
gamma info stored in it)?

  Why does the PNG need the gamma info? The other formats don't, and
they work just ok. PNG is the only one which presents problems when
the gamma info *is* included. How about not including it at all?

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