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  Re: Gamma tutorial for the 3.7 documentation?  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 8 Sep 2009 14:05:50
Message: <4aa69cfd@news.povray.org>
clipka wrote:
> Warp schrieb:
>>> Likewise, how to pre-gamma-correct color values from
>>> other programs (such as color pickers).
>> 
>>   About that... I wonder if POV-Ray should offer some kind of function to
>> do that, for convenience. In the same way as eg. degrees() and radians()
>> exist for convenience, even though they don't really save a whole lot of
>> work compared to if they didn't exist.
> 
> I think that definitely yes, POV-Ray should have such a feature.

In addition, a built-in gamma_correct() could use an internal lookup table
shared with the internal image-loading and image-saving functionality.
A macro couldn't do that.


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