POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: higher "color" resolution grayscale images: Re: higher "color" resolution grayscale images

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From: PoD
Date: 17 Dec 2002 06:46:25
Message: <pan.2002.12.17.11.49.37.370355@internode.on.net>

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:26:40 +0800, Bill Brehm wrote:

> 1. is there a way to make POVRay render the image directly to 16 bit
> grayscale?
> 2. can anyone recommend a program (preferably freeware or shareware, so I
> can try it first) that can read in 48 bit color or 16 bit grayscale PNG
> files and convert them to a 16 bit grayscale TIFF file?
> 

1. Put 'hf_gray_16 on' in the global_settings section as per 6.11.4 in the
  3.5 manual. This will cause POV-Ray to output a 16 bit greyscale file

2. I think that the latest version of ImageMagick is meant to do 16 bit
  image conversions.  I haven't tried this yet though.

Cheers,
  PoD.

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