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  Re: Does POV-Ray's gamma-adjustment info need updating?  
From: Ive
Date: 18 Oct 2017 10:59:10
Message: <59e76c3e$1@news.povray.org>
Am 10/18/2017 um 16:32 schrieb Kenneth:
> Ive <ive### [at] lilysoftorg> wrote:
>> Am 10/18/2017 um 14:24 schrieb Kenneth:
>>>
>>> I can't say that I know exactly what I'm doing with this experiment-- ha!--
>>> but is  0.72941  the correct value for the gamma 2.2 swatch? (I assume it
>>> is, of course, but I wanted an expert's opinion.)
>>>
>> Calculate for yourself:  0.5 ^ (1 / 2.2) = ?
> 
> 0.72941 !  (or almost)
> But I was somehow thinking (in a fuzzy way) that the gray swatch for gamma 2.2
> should perhaps measure as 0.5 instead-- with 0.5^2.2 resulting in .217, the
> 'gamma corrected' equivalent of 'half brightness' (0.5).  

Well, the gamma corrected equivalent of linear 'half brightness' isn't 
the power of 2.2 but the inverse, therefor 0.5 to the power of 1/2.2

-Ive


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