POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : smooth gradient color_map : Re: smooth gradient color_map Server Time
1 May 2024 17:36:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: smooth gradient color_map  
From: omniverse
Date: 22 Jul 2017 20:40:01
Message: <web.5973ef576b1125dc286bc0500@news.povray.org>
jr <cre### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> hi,
>
> On 22/07/2017 19:21, omniverse wrote:
> > And in case anyone else is wondering, documentation for color_map AND
> blend_mode
> > is at:
> >
> > http://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Color_Map
> >
>
> thanks, just found that the online documentation is out of date.
>
>
> > And something curious going on, I'm not sure about, when I add
> blend_mode ...
> > So a heads up goes to OP jr about it anyway.
>
> ouch.  ;-)
>
>
>
>
> On 22/07/2017 11:06, clipka wrote:
> >> but, checking, the doc does say "from 2 to 256 entries".
> >
> > ... and, as a matter of fact, that's no longer valid for current
> > versions anyway ;)
>
> so, what /is/ the legal range now?

 Don't know that myself but I tried up to the hundred millions and ran out of
patience waiting for the parse while memory went up to 1 gig.

I think DF3 is 8, 16 and 32 bit. Which I believe translates to 256, 2048 and
16384.

Bob


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