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Normally, I can not see the bands. In this picture only, I can.
I can tell that there are less then 16 million colors on that wall.
It looks like 256!
> From: "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trf de>
> Newsgroups: povray.macintosh
> Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 14:08:30 -0500
> Subject: Re: Bands in graditations
>
> In article <B5273F77.7BA%dav### [at] maccom> , David <dav### [at] maccom>
> wrote:
>
>> I am using an iMac DV with my display set to 1024x768 at millions of
>> colors. Normaly, my scenes look great (that is, on POV-Ray's end of things).
>> They uselly use a plane object for the ground. However, I have been tring a
>> box the put it in a small room. The gradiations on the wall look a bit
>> banded, and the antialiasing looks chopy. What should I do?
>
> For gradients between some colors the human eye can distinguish more shades
> than current display technology (= true color color with 8 bits per color
> component) can show. However, POV-Ray can generate 16 bits per color
> component PNG images, yet only very few programs support them, and as
> hardware can't display the additional shades anyway, you will have to wait
> until (if ever) such hardware is available, but then POV-Ray will already
> support it!
>
>
> Thorsten
>
>
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>
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