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23 Apr 2024 15:30:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Future of missing "assume_gamma"  
From: Greg Kennedy
Date: 4 Nov 2019 18:35:01
Message: <web.5dc0b50a7fa1c38984b401a0@news.povray.org>
"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> I doubt that it would be assigned to fatal error status, and instead have a
> default, and just issue a warning.
> As it is, you can have scenes with no light and no camera, and they still
> "render"...
>
> I think that after all of the hair-yanking, brain-hurting effort that's been put
> in over the years to get the gamma handling of POV-Ray onto solid footing, that
> clipka simply wants people to be cognizant that working with an assumed_gamma of
> 1.0 is the way to go, and all other scene "fixes" can be addressed by some other
> mechanism.

I apologize for the double-post but I just spotted this reply, and it makes
sense to me.  A scary warning will force people to notice the change in behavior
from 3.6 to 3.7, even if it never actually becomes fatal.  It got my attention
anyway :)


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