Thanks for the info, but how do I reduce the banding?

> From: Chris Huff <chr### [at] yahoocom>
> Newsgroups: povray.macintosh
> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 11:21:32 -0500
> Subject: Re: Bands in graditations
> 
> In article <B529041B.B39%dav### [at] maccom>, David
> <dav### [at] maccom> wrote:
> 
>> 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!
> 
> It might be. And there are definitely less than 16 million colors on
> that wall! 24 bit color is 8 bits per component, you have 256 levels of
> red, green, and blue. This means you also only have 256 levels of gray,
> since those three are equal in gray colors. If the only difference
> between the colors is the intensity, you can sometimes see the banding,
> even with 24 bit color.
> 
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