POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : What should gamma be? : Re: ?? Mac is Mac and PC is PC and never the twain shall meet ?? Server Time
10 Aug 2024 05:17:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: ?? Mac is Mac and PC is PC and never the twain shall meet ??  
From: Chris Huff
Date: 24 Feb 2000 16:00:09
Message: <chrishuff_99-553419.16013324022000@news.povray.org>
In article <38B53A18.9EA02466@my-dejanews.com>, 
gre### [at] my-dejanewscom wrote:

> Could this just be the great gap between Mac and Wintel: they define 
> brightness per pixel differently and thus what looks good on Mac 
> won't look good on Wintel, no matter how much I tweak my monitor 
> settings.....

The "standard" gamma on Macs is somewhere around 1.8, while PC's usually 
are in the area of 2.2. I think PNG format images contain gamma 
information, and if you use a reader which supports it, the display of 
the image will automatically be adjusted. I could easily be wrong 
though...

-- 
Chris Huff
e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/


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