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2 Jul 2024 10:34:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Struggling with gamma...  
From: clipka
Date: 29 Jun 2010 07:12:00
Message: <4c29d500$1@news.povray.org>
Am 29.06.2010 11:39, schrieb Gyscos:
> So the whole gamma thing is just a transitionnal state to store efficiently the
> important values ? Like gramophones where some frequencies are amplified on the
> track and then de-amplified during playback to compensate for a loss of
> precision... :D Yay, I finally get why people invented it in the first place...

Yes, as far as File_Gamma goes (i.e. gamma /encoding/), that's exactly 
what's happening. Nice analogy.


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