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> In article <3e0d9909@news.povray.org>,
>  "Gilles Tran" <git### [at] wanadoofr> wrote:
> I could understand it having an advantage over using more common image
> formats for light mapping, but what use does it have in POV?

Hmm, it looks that you haven't seen what's going on in p.b.i these days.
Come on, give it a try, you'll see the advantage by yourself :-) (and I
didn't believe it before I was given the patch). With HDR, we now have
POV-Ray images virtually impossible to tell from actual photographs. See
JRG's watch pic for instance.
Actually, HDR effects can be done in POV-Ray without a patch, by using
radiosity with a texture_map with a very high range of ambient values (this
is what Ive did for his Vermeer images) but it's not exactly easy to set up.
Setting up a simple HDR scene is a piece of cake by comparison.

G.


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