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
6 Oct 2024 04:22:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Same scene renders different in v3.7beta34 versus v3.62  
From: clipka
Date: 31 Aug 2009 22:58:53
Message: <4a9c8ded@news.povray.org>
Warp schrieb:
>   (Btw, IMO there still should be a way of telling POV-Ray to not gamma
> correct anything if that's what the user wishes. Currently it seems to
> be difficult, as POV-Ray seems to be writing a gamma value of 2.2 to the
> output PNG file regardless of what File_Gamma is. I don't even understand
> where it's getting that 2.2 value from.)

That's not POV-Ray, it's the display software. Encoded pixel data and 
the embedded gamma information together allow the viewing software to 
reconstruct the linear values, and it will then convert this to whatever 
it assumes the actual display hardware gamma to be.


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