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30 Jul 2024 08:29:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Albedo in PoV-Ray?  
From: Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann
Date: 10 May 2009 09:21:41
Message: <4a06d4e5$1@news.povray.org>
High!

Mike Williams wrote:

> For non-grey colours, the albedo is probably best represented by .gray 
> (watch out for that American spelling, the UK English spelling doesn't 
> work) which returns a value where the three components are weighted in a 
> way that corresponds to the way the human eye responds.

Is the .gray value equivalent to the luminosity value in the HSL model? 
I just started an animation of the Jovian moon Amalthea (albedo 0.09) 
using the CHSL2RGB macro in colors.inc...

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar


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