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7 Jul 2024 07:11:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-Ray 3.7 gamma - status  
From: clipka
Date: 21 Sep 2009 08:04:37
Message: <4ab76bd5@news.povray.org>
Christoph Hormann schrieb:

> One field where i consider performance to be possibly critical is use of 
> images in isosurfaces.  This leads to a real lot of image evaluations. 
> There however you nearly always use a linear gamma curve.  So a special 
> case for images where file_gamma is exactly 1.0 would be a good idea.

That's already implemented :-)

In case the effective decoding gamma curve happens to be neutral, the 
file readers choose an image container that does not do gamma lookup at 
all, and just does the standard "/255.0f" decoding instead.


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