On 17/10/2016 21:44, clipka wrote:
> Am 17.10.2016 um 09:24 schrieb scott:
>
>>> What other feedback would you like to give about the gamma handling in
>>> POV-Ray 3.7?
>>
>> "assumed_gamma" is still a bit unintuitive IMO in what it actually does.
>> I'm pretty sure if you took a person who knew a lot about gamma handling
>> but had never used POV before, and asked them what they thought it did,
>> they would most likely get it wrong.
>
> Do you think the naming of the setting plays a major role in this, or
> would you expect it to be just about as unintuitive under any other name?

Both I think - AFAIK it effectively does two things (set the gamma 
assumed for non-gamma-corrected input values, and set the gamma used in 
the internal engine calculations). If it just did one or the other, the 
name could probably be more self-explanatory then.

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