POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Display Problem : Re: Display Problem Server Time
28 Jul 2024 22:24:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Display Problem  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 6 Oct 1998 20:39:08
Message: <361aaa1c.0@news.povray.org>
Im Beitrag <361AA54C.7D163D36@usit.net> , Lewis Sellers <lse### [at] usitnet>  schrieb:

>Anyway, the point I was making was that usually displaying a truecolor
>(or millions if you're on a mac) image in 16bit hicolor (or thousands on
>a mac) mode means that the the software simply drops off the least
>significant color bits as 3:2:3. And that causes a lack of color
>smoothness.

Just a sidenote: The Mac 3.1 version has *full* dithering in whatever resolution you
run it. And we can even view the alpha-channel - it works just the way Photoshop does
it :-)


    Thorsten

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Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany


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