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From: Alain
Date: 18 Sep 2007 00:34:04
Message: <46ef553c$1@news.povray.org>
Zeger Knaepen nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/09/17 12:51:
> "Alain" <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote in message 
> news:46ee8120$1@news.povray.org...
>> flatline nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/09/17 03:52:
>>> is dumping RGB rendering results in float format possible within POV-ray 
>>> (or
>>> MegaPOV)?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot for any help,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> No.
>> If you output as PPM or PNG, you can have from 5 up to 16 bits per chanel 
>> integer values.
>> PNG offers good compression.
>> PNG can also have an alpha chanel of the same lenght as the colour 
>> chanels.
>> At some time, there was RAW and DMP, but they were discarted as obsolete. 
>> They were still integer based.
> 
> MegaPOV can output HDR-images, aren't those float-based?
> 
> cu!
I don't use MegaPov. Yes, HDR is, and need to be, float based. It's also, in my 
view, the only reason you may need, or want, float based image data.

-- 
Alain
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