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  Re: Finding Pigment / color of an object  
From: Kenneth
Date: 1 Mar 2009 20:50:01
Message: <web.49ab3a082533534ff50167bc0@news.povray.org>
"Chris B" <nom### [at] nomailcom> wrote:

>
> The other one of interest is .gray which I guess averages out the rgb values
> (I've never used it).
>

The .gray 'averaging' scheme seems to be full of black magic and voodoo. I've
lately been trying to figure out just *how* it produces its values (armed with
the only formula found in the docs, at "HF_Gray_16"...which offers no real hint
of the underlying computations.) But I'll leave that question for a later post
of its own. All in all, very mysterious!

KW


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