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  Re: Gamma tutorial for the 3.7 documentation?  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 7 Sep 2009 04:35:45
Message: <4aa4c5e1$1@news.povray.org>
"clipka" <ano### [at] anonymousorg> schreef in bericht 
news:4aa43552$1@news.povray.org...
>
> I think that definitely yes, POV-Ray should have such a feature. It is 
> perfectly possible to roll your own macro to do that, but if POV-Ray is 
> going the full way for proper gamma handling, it should - I'd even say 
> /must/ - provide some standard procedure to do it, if only to make a clear 
> statement along the lines of "yes, /this/ is the right way to deal with 
> it". And I'd go as far as to say that it should work without having to 
> include a particular file, so it should be a built-in language contruct, 
> not just a macro.

Sven Littkovski's neat little "POV-Ray Color Picker" (2006; version 2.0) is 
a good example of such a picker. I use it quite a lot and I recommend it 
warmly. Built into POV-Ray would be a nice addition.

Thomas


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