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28 Apr 2024 19:52:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: df3 question  
From: Stephen
Date: 10 Sep 2017 15:45:15
Message: <59b5964b$1@news.povray.org>
On 10/09/2017 20:26, clipka wrote:
> Am 10.09.2017 um 20:50 schrieb Stephen:
> 
>>> I would presume tga2df3.exe uses the greyscale value (or an average of
>>> the channels) from the images; and that OOsawa 4D Volume Viewer
>>> essentially just uses a colour_map-ish system to convert density to
>>> colour.
>>>
>>
>> I'm not convinced. I distinctly remember Oosawa telling me that the
>> opened df3 was not monochromatic and asking me which colour channel to
>> use.
> 
> Maybe there is (or was) a POV-Ray /patch/ (or 3rd party software) that
> implements a coloured variant of the DF3 files; but I know of none, and
> I can literally guarantee that official POV-Ray only reads
> single-channel DF3s.
> 

I believed you the first time you told me. As I always do. :-)
And it is irrelevant now as I don't have a copy of Oosawa that shows the 
behaviour I described.

-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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