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  Re: 16-bit grayscale PNGs -> PoV-Ray 16-bit heightfield TGAs?  
From: Kenneth
Date: 28 Mar 2008 01:40:00
Message: <web.47ec9114b76e233678dcad930@news.povray.org>
"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:

> So I have a question (truly out of ignorance): What is the purpose of
> re-rendering  that 16-bit image using the hf_gray_16 rendering step that was
> mentioned?

A more enlightened reading of Jaime's original post tells me that I was
completely confused about what he meant (and I probably confused others by my
question.) It's clear now; he was describing a solution to the question in the
original post, a technique for taking a 16-bit .png image and re-rendering it to
be a different file type, one that could be used to make a 16-bit HF in case the
..png image itself didn't work.

But as others have said, a 16-bit .png image works as-is.

All clear. I'm off and running!

Ken W.


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