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20 Apr 2024 11:46:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: smooth gradient color_map  
From: Alain
Date: 22 Jul 2017 22:11:30
Message: <597405d2@news.povray.org>
Le 17-07-22 à 20:35, omniverse a écrit :
> jr <cre### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> On 22/07/2017 19:21, omniverse wrote:
>>> And in case anyone else is wondering, documentation for color_map AND
>> blend_mode
>>> is at:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Color_Map
>>>
>>
>> thanks, just found that the online documentation is out of date.
>>
>>
>>> And something curious going on, I'm not sure about, when I add
>> blend_mode ...
>>> So a heads up goes to OP jr about it anyway.
>>
>> ouch.  ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 22/07/2017 11:06, clipka wrote:
>>>> but, checking, the doc does say "from 2 to 256 entries".
>>>
>>> ... and, as a matter of fact, that's no longer valid for current
>>> versions anyway ;)
>>
>> so, what /is/ the legal range now?
> 
>   Don't know that myself but I tried up to the hundred millions and ran out of
> patience waiting for the parse while memory went up to 1 gig.
> 
> I think DF3 is 8, 16 and 32 bit. Which I believe translates to 256, 2048 and
> 16384.
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 
8 bits is 256 values
16 bits is 65365 values
and 32 bits is a little over 4 billions values.


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