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  Re: Upgrading POV-Ray's include files - a few remarks  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 1 Mar 2021 04:44:59
Message: <603cb79b@news.povray.org>
Op 01/03/2021 om 08:49 schreef Thomas de Groot:
> Op 28/02/2021 om 16:43 schreef Kenneth:
>> "Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

>>> (assumed_gamma 1.0), and get identical results to your middle image. 
>>> So far, so
>>> good ;-)
>>>
>>
>> Hmm, they are not quite identical after all.
>>
>> I thought I would do a side-by-side comparison of your v3.6 
>> assumed_gamma 1.0
>> version to v3.8xx (I changed the "skies.inc" pigments back to their 
>> originals.)
>>
>> There's a definite difference; I assume that it comes from the many
>> 'under-the-hood' changes made to POV-ray since v3.6.
>>
>> So it seems to be very difficult to determine (and update) what the 
>> author's
>> *original* visual intent was for these pigments.
>>

>>
> 
> I have not tested it, but maybe your differences come from the fact that 
> you use version 3.8 here. I did not, from the principle that version 3.7 
> and/or 3.7.1 are the /last/ official versions of POV-Ray. As a start, 
> the includes should comply with those versions. Version 3.8 is beta and 
> may need more changes in future.
> 

I tested and, no, you must have used some wrong settings somewhere. 
versions 3.7 or 3.8 render identically.

-- 
Thomas


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