POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : POV-Ray 3.7 gamma - status : Re: POV-Ray 3.7 gamma - status Server Time
4 Jul 2024 12:43:36 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-Ray 3.7 gamma - status  
From: clipka
Date: 15 Sep 2009 13:34:36
Message: <4aafd02c@news.povray.org>
clipka schrieb:
> * Legacy Behaviour:
> [...]
> - In POV-Ray 3.6, non-paletted PNG files with gAMA chunks were the 
> /only/ input files which were ever gamma-adjusted, and these were 
> /always/ gamma-adjusted (unless used in a data-container context). This 
> will be changed even for legacy scenes; fortunately, this will not give 
> different results for standard PNG files; however, it /will/ change the 
> look of PNG files with a gAMA of 1.0.
> [...]
> 
> Hmm... did I forget to mention anything? Probably yes, but I guess I 
> can't help it :-)

Ah yes, one more thing:

The above claim that results will not differ for most PNG files does 
/not/ hold true if assumed_gamma is not specified at all. In that case, 
POV-Ray 3.6 applied some particularly mental gamma-'correction', which 
will /not/ be matched by the new behaviour.


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