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From: Fabien Mosen
Subject: 16 bits grayscale PNG output
Date: 18 Mar 2001 12:32:54
Message: <3AB4F0AD.A3DDD682@skynet.be>
How do I told POV-Ray to output 16 bits grayscale PNG images ?
(not red-green 2*8 bits).

Gforge aside, which software is capable of working with these
files ?

Fabien.


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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: 16 bits grayscale PNG output
Date: 18 Mar 2001 12:48:44
Message: <3AB4F4FC.4892A3E4@gmx.de>
Fabien Mosen wrote:
> 
> How do I told POV-Ray to output 16 bits grayscale PNG images ?
> (not red-green 2*8 bits).

+fn16 (in connection with hf_gray_16)

> 
> Gforge aside, which software is capable of working with these
> files ?

AFAIK not many.  Neither Leveller nor Wilbur can handle them.  Most
graphic programs and viewers can read them as 8 bit greyscale.  

Christoph

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From: Ron Parker
Subject: Re: 16 bits grayscale PNG output
Date: 18 Mar 2001 13:29:25
Message: <slrn9b9vkc.3dq.ron.parker@fwi.com>
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 18:30:21 +0100, Fabien Mosen wrote:
>How do I told POV-Ray to output 16 bits grayscale PNG images ?
>(not red-green 2*8 bits).
>
>Gforge aside, which software is capable of working with these
>files ?

POV itself, of course.

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Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.


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From: Pabs
Subject: Re: 16 bits grayscale PNG output
Date: 19 Mar 2001 05:11:08
Message: <3ab5db3c$1@news.povray.org>
Fabien Mosen wrote:

> Gforge aside, which software is capable of working with these
> files ?
Hollywood GIMP??


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From: Mark Gordon
Subject: Re: 16 bits grayscale PNG output
Date: 19 Mar 2001 22:12:27
Message: <3AB6CF69.970D10A@mailbag.com>
Pabs wrote:
> 
> Fabien Mosen wrote:
> 
> > Gforge aside, which software is capable of working with these
> > files ?
> Hollywood GIMP??

Actually, I've gotten the impression that the current Hollywood GIMP
uses a 16-bit floating point format.  It sounds like GIMP 2.0 (long way
off) will have full 16-bit support.

-Mark Gordon


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From: Pabs
Subject: Re: 16 bits grayscale PNG output
Date: 19 Mar 2001 22:46:36
Message: <3ab6d29c@news.povray.org>
Mark Gordon wrote:

> Actually, I've gotten the impression that the current Hollywood GIMP
> uses a 16-bit floating point format.  It sounds like GIMP 2.0 (long way
> off) will have full 16-bit support.
http://film.gimp.org/gimp.pdf says
"GEGL abstracts the color model and color depth (8-bit, 16-bit, 
float)..." and "[GIL] has been implemented for the case of ... and data 
types (float, 8bit, 16bit)"

More relevant is:
"The film version of GIMP supports both 16-bit and floating point 
channel data"


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From: Pabs
Subject: Re: 16 bits grayscale PNG output
Date: 19 Mar 2001 22:53:55
Message: <3ab6d453$1@news.povray.org>
Found some more from ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/users/rayl/gimp.README
"- comes up in 16 bit by default.  16 bit is well tested, 8 bit is
    probably fine.  no guarantees about floating point yet, that's
    still under development"


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From: Mark Gordon
Subject: Re: 16 bits grayscale PNG output
Date: 20 Mar 2001 21:07:00
Message: <3AB81195.30EC362D@mailbag.com>
Pabs wrote:
> 
> Found some more from ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/users/rayl/gimp.README
> "- comes up in 16 bit by default.  16 bit is well tested, 8 bit is
>     probably fine.  no guarantees about floating point yet, that's
>     still under development"

OK, I'm going from what I'd heard some of the GIMP developers saying at
SIGGRAPH last year.  Maybe the 16-bit (integer) is further along than
I'd realized.

-Mark Gordon


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