On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:40:32 +1300, Aaron wrote:

>> Hmmm.. I think I need an eye-test. The first time the cells looked
>> like depressions. Now, on rechecking, they look raised and OK. I guess
>> the lighting confuses the eye.
> 
> Yeah I think thats one thing about the image I like.  :)
> 
> Its a pity I can't seem to get rid of the banding effect.
> 
> I tried to re-render at a higher resolution and the banding was worse.
> Tried with and without radiosity and photons with little or no difference to
> the banding.  Tried saving in other file formats as well but it seems to be
> at the rendering stage.
> 
> I seem to have that problem with some of my images now. I was going through
> my collection and found a lot.  Does anyone know of a good way to reduce
> this?
> 
> I hadn't noticed it before because I have in the past been looking at the
> models and textures.
> 
> Aaron
> 
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Are you running your machine in 16-bit and taking screencaps? This may 
cause it. You should either run in 24- or 32-bit or take the actual output 
files from POV instead. The colouring takes a rapid plunge of 15 or so RGB 
units when I took a look in Paint Shop Pro which means it's getting 
16-bittized at some stage. (if 16-bittized is even a word :-) )

Sure hope this helps and BTW, when I first saw this image it looked like 
some kind of squid or octopus in water. Good job.

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