POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : Same scene renders different in v3.7beta34 versus v3.62 : Re: Same scene renders different in v3.7beta34 versus v3.62 Server Time
7 Jul 2024 07:21:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Same scene renders different in v3.7beta34 versus v3.62  
From: clipka
Date: 22 Aug 2009 15:56:01
Message: <4a904d51$1@news.povray.org>
Warp schrieb:
>   Btw, could someone explain, once again, why the default gamma settings
> of povray 3.7 are different from the defaults in 3.6, making all scenes
> without explicit gamma settings render differently? I never quite got the
> reason for this.

Maybe because they actually /do/ render identically, provided you 
specify "#version 3.6" to enforce backward compatibility?

Things only get complicated when you explicitly use a flexible-gamma 
file format (such as .png or .hdr). Having these render identically as 
well would probably require different "#version 3.6" defaults for the 
parameters of 3.7's gamma-handling mechanism. Or a nasty hack of that 
mechanism.


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