POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Dragon Lady : Re: Dragon Lady Server Time
28 Sep 2024 19:51:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Dragon Lady  
From: Alain
Date: 8 Aug 2016 13:13:39
Message: <57a8bdc3@news.povray.org>

> Alain <kua### [at] videotronca> wrote:
>
>> Sory, it's just not possible. DF3 support 1, 2 or 3 bytes per voxel, but
>> always in a single channel gray levels.
>
> Given what Stephen resorts to doing, I thought that might be the case.
>
> BUT - I also thought that perhaps if there were a way to recolor the DF3 befor
> saving, then the realistic RBG values could be _encoded_ into that false color
> in such a way that they could be extracted back out of the gray value.
>

How can you recolor before saving when the format only support discrete, 
single component, scalar values? That's just not possible.

Remember that DF3s have no concept of colour at all. It's strictly a 
list of 1 dimension values.


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