POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : [BUG] POVRay excessive memory consumption : Re: [BUG] POVRay excessive memory consumption Server Time
8 Jul 2024 17:56:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: [BUG] POVRay excessive memory consumption  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 24 Jan 2004 18:23:14
Message: <1bbbe1-dqu.ln1@triton.imagico.de>
Wolfgang Wieser wrote:
>>and they
>>do some really strange things - using 16 bit values for the image for
>>example is understandable for memory size reasons but this makes it
>>essentially incompatible to other patches (HDR output, post processing).
>>
> 
> Ah, you are right. In case there are other patches or parts of the code 
> which need the complete image in memory, [...]

No, this is not about keeping the whole image, it is about keeping the 
unclipped full precision color values.

Christoph

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