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  Re: PNG output much brighter than preview...  
From: scott
Date: 16 Jan 2007 07:03:52
Message: <45acbf28$1@news.povray.org>
> It gets even more funny for LCD monitors that do not have the typical 
> gamma characteristic of CRTs.  This means colors are sent to the monitor 
> in a nonlinear form but then linearized again to be displayed.

Well actually the LC response curve (brightness against voltage) is even 
funnier than the CRT curve, it is an S-shape.  Something like this: 
http://www.kth.se/fakulteter/TFY/kmf/lcd/image11.gif

There is normally a look up table that does the inverse gamma and the LC 
response curve all in one step.


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