POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Pov-Ray assumptions, and missing Utilities : Re: Pov-Ray assumptions, and missing Utilities Server Time
28 Jul 2024 12:31:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Pov-Ray assumptions, and missing Utilities  
From: Christian Froeschlin
Date: 29 Apr 2009 14:21:12
Message: <49f89a98@news.povray.org>
Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:

 >
>> gif:              40 / 255   (why not 42???)
> 
>   ..but that seems totally arbitrary!

actually, this is probably an artefact of the lzw compression,
which assigns its own bit patterns to input values. When modifying
the image and resaving it was suddenly 0 / 15. Better not rely on
GIF color indexes (although transparency probably works as GIF
supports it directly).


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