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  Re: HDR images as functions: is this right?  
From: Jaime Vives Piqueres
Date: 28 Jan 2011 04:44:51
Message: <4d429013@news.povray.org>

> I'm really hoping to develop some "one size fits all" default
> values, and let people worry about adjusting things only when it's
> absolutely necessary.
>
> Sam

 From OpenEXR technical documentation:

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half numbers have 1 sign bit, 5 exponent bits, and 10 mantissa bits. The
interpretation of the sign, exponent and mantissa is analogous to
IEEE-754 floating-point numbers. half supports normalized and
denormalized numbers, infinities and NANs (Not A Number). The range of


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I checked a POV-Ray generated .exr with IC, and seems it uses the "half"
format... so, I suppose this means we can use 65000 as a safe value for
POV-Ray generated .exr files?

-- 
Jaime Vives Piqueres
		
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