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From: Kenneth
Date: 14 May 2008 12:50:01
Message: <web.482b173d8a21c37b78dcad930@news.povray.org>
"Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlDOTnet> wrote:

>
> In Zeger's example, I would replace .gray by .red (or .green or .blue).
> Parsing will be much faster, for the same result.
>


That's interesting.  Due, no doubt, to the extra calculations POV has to perform
in turning a full RGB pigment into .gray.

A  more accurate way of getting the pigment pattern's colors into grayscale
would be to substitute a PATTERN for the PIGMENT; it's already in grayscale.
I.e., pattern{bozo...} And--as far as I can tell from section 3.5.11.16 of the
docs--such patterns have 16-bit resolution.

KW


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