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  Re: POV-Ray 3.7 gamma - status  
From: clipka
Date: 25 Sep 2009 07:52:46
Message: <4abcaf0e$1@news.povray.org>
Nicolas Alvarez schrieb:
> Ive <"ive### [at] lilysoftorg"> wrote:
>> While I think it is a very good idea to use lut's for 8 bps I do believe
>> it should not be done for 16 bps as they are meant to apply things like
>> inverse gamma correction without *any* visual impact. But this is not an
>> important issue.
> 
> What if it's a lookup table that maps a 16-bit integer into a 32-bit float?
> There wouldn't be any visual impact there...

I think what Ive means is that 16 bit per color channel should already 
provide enough "headroom" to do the gamma correction in that format.


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