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27 Apr 2024 01:40:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: gamma handling discussion  
From: clipka
Date: 4 Nov 2016 07:58:02
Message: <581c77ca$1@news.povray.org>
Am 04.11.2016 um 09:19 schrieb Warp:

> [ambient]
> The problem with it as it is now is that when a new user, or even an
> existing user, specifies assumed_gamma 1.0 as recommended, all of his
> scenes will become needlessly bright, diminishing the visual quality
> of the result. Usually he will not know that there's something wrong
> with the ambient finish setting and that he needs to manually adjust
> it. I see absolutely no reason why it should be manually adjusted in
> order to retain the good-looking level of brightness. That should be
> the default. You only need to adjust it if you really want some other
> level of brightness.

Well, I absolutely do see a reason: Maintaining backward compatibility.

It can be argued whether that reason is strong enough, but anyone
claiming that they see absolutely no reason is either blind,
deliberately closing their eyes, or deliberately misleading the audience.


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